The Women of Providence in Collaboration join our voices with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and a host of other religious organizations calling for an end to gun violence. As we know there are too many lives being lost to gun violence and mass shootings. In the United States alone there have been 255 mass shootings just this year, [...]
Safe Place Services of Louisville, a day shelter for homeless young adults, is where you will find Sr. Corbin Hannah, a Sister of Providence from St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN. She is the youth development coordinator, offers life skills programming, and pretty much runs the shelter along with part time staff and students. As Sr. Corbin knows, the streets and adult homeless [...]
Oblate Sister of Providence Sr. Marcia Hall is producing a documentary which hopes to promote vocations in the African American Community. About eight years ago she was serving as her community's vocation director and attending a seminar where black Catholic parents shared their feelings about their children entering religious life--and they weren't happy about it. She knew she had to [...]
Sister Rosa Nguyen is a Sister of Providence from Mother Joseph Province in Seattle, WA. She ministers at Providence High School in Burbank, California. She has ministered there for more than four years but she is the only remaining Sister of Providence working there today. She grew up in a Catholic family in Viet Nam and entered the Sisters of [...]
Most of us are familiar with the crisis at our southern border. It's in the news everyday and the rhetoric surrounding it grows more hateful. It might be difficult for some people to believe everything they hear, but when photos of kids in cages and adults packed in like sardines in a wire-fenced can are shown on our TV screens, [...]
In 1988 the Salvation Army began a program to provide homeless women and families temporary shelter in St. Louis County. The Sisters of Divine Providence, whose provincial house was in Normandy, MO made a corporate commitment to the homeless in 1990. These two organizations would meet "providentially" a couple of years later. In 1992 the Salvation Army obtained a grant [...]
La Posada Providencia is a refugee house in San Benito, Texas sponsored by the Sisters of Divine Providence from Allison Park, PA. It has seen an influx of immigrants even before all the public attention began with the border crisis. Just recently La Posada welcomed a mother from Peru who was pregnant, took care of her and her baby, as [...]
In 1914, Charlie Chaplin made his silver-screen debut; the cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, DC; a political assassination sparked the First World War, and Sister Mansueta Martineau was born in Piercefield, New York on March 3. Pictured above: Sr. Mansueta with Sr. Alice Gerdeman, Provincial Sister says, "When I was about seven, my dad lost his [...]
In preparation for their final vows, Sister Thomas (left) and Sister Paul, (right) Sisters of Divine Providence from the St. Joseph Province in Korea, spent time this spring with the Sisters of Marie de la Roche Province at Providence Heights in Pittsburgh. While in the U.S., the Sisters also traveled to San Benito, Texas, to visit La Posada Providencia, a [...]
Every day we hear more about the terrible conditions facing children as well as women and men in detention centers along our southern border. It seems the situation is simply unconscionable. Many of my friends tell me they feel overwhelmed and paralyzed by those images of children in filthy and overcrowded conditions. Let's face it, these conditions do not even [...]
