Ursuline Associate Father Larry Hostetter shared the dream of a Caritas Center at Brescia University with participants of the annual Associates and Sisters Day on June 25, 2022. “Love calls us to try to understand each other, to accompany one another,” Father Larry said. “Hospitality is caritas in action.” Caritas is the Latin word for…

The Ursuline Sisters were a constant presence in the small town of Paola, Kan., for more than 100 years. Two agencies serving people in Paola plan to make sure the Sisters are never forgotten. Ursuline Sisters first arrived in Paola in 1895, after separating from the Ursulines of Louisville. They established a reputation as wonderful…

Ursuline Sisters and Associates visited the former Motherhouse of the Ursuline Sisters of Paola, Kan., on June 4, 2022, to have a prayer service in the cemetery. The former convent is now home to Arista Recovery, a substance abuse treatment facility. The Sisters and Associates received a tour of the facility before heading to the…

When Sister Alicia Coomes was gathering some items from the late Sister Marietta Wethington’s room this week, she was surprised to find bottles for blowing bubbles. So, on June 1, 2022, some of the Ursuline Sisters in Saint Joseph Villa gathered in one of the courtyards to blow bubbles in her memory on the sunny…

The Ursuline Sisters looked to the past for the person to lead them into the future, selecting Sister Sharon Sullivan as congregational leader, six years after she left the same office. Sister Sharon was congregational leader from 2010-16. The native Texan becomes only the second Sister in the community's history to be elected to nonconsecutive…