Ministries | JPIC Ministries After Vatican II

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Brief description	Author
Patricia (Pat) Murphy Patricia (Pat) Murphy grew up in a family that valued spirituality and attended Duchesne Academy in Omaha which often included spiritual practices. A Society general counsel called for meeting the needs of those whose needs were not often met. After earning a PhD in Pastoral Counseling, she became a chaplain at Rush University Medical Center to...	droche
Diane Roche Diane was drawn to the Society because of the witness of Carol Putnam and other RSCJ in the South End of Boston in the mid 1970s. She spent her early years working with the children and adults of Sursum Corda Village in Washington, DC, eventually helping to convert it into a tenant-owned Co-op. Her interest in affordable housing led her to...	droche
Maxine (Mackie) Kraemer A lifelong educator, Maxine (Mackie) Kraemer, RSCJ, was committed to educational justice, especially for people with developmental disabilities.	lbehrens
Anne Montgomery Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, was an incredible symbol of peacemaking, her work extending into the 21st century until she died in 2012. Anne started as a teacher, especially working with poor adults and children in New York City. She became involved with the Catholic Worker movement in the 1970s, doing social actions with a variety of groups to...	jpowell
Catherine (Kit) Collins In 1984 Nance O'Neil, United States provincial, asked Kit to establish what became the Center for Educational Design and Communication (CEDC) in Washington, to provide educational and communications support to groups working for social justice. It was apparent that communications technology, necessary to get their message across, was beyond the...	droche
Joan Kirby In 2019 Joan received the Interfaith Visionary Lifetime Achievement Award from the Temple of Understanding “for promoting interreligious	droche
Mary (Be) Mardel While Provincial Superior of the California Province, Be supported the United Farmworkers Organizing Committee, and was arrested and jailed for participation in a demonstration. In addition, Be founded St. Madeleine Sophie's Center for developmentally disabled adults and worked with people suffering from Aids in the early days of the Aids...	droche
Carlota Duarte In 1974 Carlota joined the RSCJ community living at Casa del Sol, 10 Pembroke Street, in the South End of Boston. The intention of the RSCJ was to live in the neighborhood, without a project, but rather to learn from their neighbors in what way the nuns might serve. Prior to RSCJ presence, in 1968, the Puerto Rican community living in what was...	droche
Carolyn (Lyn) Osiek In 1977 Lyn accepted a position at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She writes: "I was called on to do a great deal of international travel in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Faculty at CTU have a recognized and respected platform for advocacy on issues of justice and peace from a Catholic base. Working on these issues in union with...	droche
Maria (Mercedes) Posada To say they helped thousands would be closer to the truth. When the nuns died in a two-vehicle accident early Thursday morning, it left a void in the community of LaBelle. The sisters helped feed, counsel and minister to a large number of immigrants who work at area farms. (Excerpt from a newspaper article about the funeral for Mercedes Posada...	lbehrens
Rosa Orjuela "To say they helped thousands would be closer to the truth. When the nuns died in a two-vehicle accident early Thursday morning, it left a void in the community of LaBelle. The sisters helped feed, counsel and minister to a large number of immigrants who work at area farms." From a newspaper article describing the funeral of Rosa Orjuela and...	lbehrens
Thensted Center The Thensted Center was established in 1982 to respond to the needs of the rural poor in St. Landry parish Louisiana. founded in the tiny town of Grand Coteau under the guidance of Sr Margaret Hoffman, RSCJ and named in memory of Fr. Cornelius Thensted, ST, for his outreach to the region's poor that began in 1947, the Thensted Center aims to...	droche
Sursum Corda Village Sursum Corda Village was created as part of an effort to provide decent, affordable housing for low-income families being displaced by urban renewal projects, such as the construction of a new football field for Gonzaga High School. Several Gonzaga and Georgetown alums were active in the planning and financing of the 199 unit development. ...	droche
Alice Catherine McDonell Alice gave up a career in nursing in order to enter the Society in 1943. In 1969 she was able to return to the work she loved, this time as a public heath nurse with the Department of Human Resources in Washington, DC.	droche
Georgianna Blaeser Georgie served one year as Director of Communications for the new United States Province, 1982-1983, and then from 1983 to 1987, she served on the Communications Team for the international Society of the Sacred Heart in Rome. When she returned from Rome, she went to Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, Miami as campus minister and director of...	Anonymous
Margaret Mary Power Having studied and taught Catholic Social Teaching in Sacred Heart schools, Sister Margaret Mary Power embraced the end of cloister and the opportunity to serve the poor after the Second Vatican Council. She said of her first days in Little Burgundy, “I took a course with the 'avocats populaires' on Bill 26. It was the law which came out in...	rcunnings