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Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia On January 28, 2023, Larissa Thamires de Sousa Bezerra, CSJ, professed vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, in Teresina, PI, Brazil. She was surrounded by community, family and friends. Sister Larissa joins two other young women who have professed vows in the last two years: Sisters Walquíria and Domingas. …

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“Defending the Dignity of the Innocent… and the Guilty: The Beautiful Challenge of Building a True Culture of Life” Sunday, March 19, 6:30 PMMcAllister Board Room, Ferrell Academic CenterBenedictine College, 1020 N. 2nd Street, Atchison, Kansas, 66002 Tricia Worrell is a longtime champion of the dignity of the human person: she started the Respect Life club at …

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Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth The Charity Federation was well represented February 17-19 at the Giving Voice 40s Retreat – themed “Come to the Living Water” – held at the Sisters of St. Joseph’s houses in Seal Beach, California. Sisters Melissa Camardo and Rejane Cytacki, of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, were among the …

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Check out the list of Lenten resources available on the Catholic Sisters of Kansas Resource page!

On Wednesday, February 22, a group of Sisters from various women’s religious communities in Kansas traveled to Topeka to meet with Governor Laura Kelly and deliver over 200 letters supporting her bill to expand Medicaid in the state. Gathered in the rotunda, a number of Sisters spoke about the project and their hopes for the …

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See the article on the Global Sisters Report website: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/sisters-inspire-help-fund-app-used-anti-trafficking-work

by Sister Jennifer Halling, OSB Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica Sister Elizabeth Carrillo has always had a strong connection with the natural world, where she has a sense of something “greater and other and good.” She’s been collecting leaves and bugs since she was a toddler and says, “Being outdoors was always where I …

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Adorers of the Blood of Christ by Jeff Stahlhut In late July, Pope Francis apologized to the Native People during a visit to Canada, calling the forced cultural assimilation of the past a “deplorable evil” and “disastrous error.” “I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again …

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Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia, Kansas It all began in 2018 with a possibly suspicious email, the kind you might delete without a second look. Four years later, it concluded with the arrival in Concordia of three Dominican Sisters from Vietnam. The story from that beginning to its end features bureaucracy, the pandemic, persistence and …

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On behalf of the Catholic Sisters of Kansas, NETWORK invites you to sign-on to a letter addressed to Governor Laura Kelly, Senator Ty Masterson, President of the Senate, and Representative Daniel Hawkins, Speaker of the House, calling on them to expand Medicaid in Kansas. As people dedicated to living the gospel, we believe it is …

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