WPC – Providence Justice Collective invites you to a one-hour virtual workshop on the Doctrine of Discovery: Doctrine of Domination? The Doctrine of Discovery was and continues to this day to be foundational for legal and cultural racism. It gave the Church’s blessing to settler-colonialism that ultimately wreaked havoc on existing (non-European) communities in the Caribbean and North America. Dates…
The following excerpt is from Leslie Keener, CDP, who graciously let me share it with all of you in the WPC blog posts. I think being astonished in these challenging times is a good thing upon which to reflect. I hope you enjoy pondering it as much as I did. “When I read a story about Jesus, my attention is…
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…
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…
Providence prevailed on Thursday, November 15, when the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, learned that the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) had awarded tax credits for a project at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The credits will be used to create 64 units of affordable housing for seniors by the Congregation in the current, vacant Owens Hall on the motherhouse…