How quickly our joy for the Resurrection we celebrated on Easter Sunday can turn to sorrow. Our hearts are grieving as we learn of the shootings in downtown Louisville, another act of mass violence. We all feel helpless when facing this senseless destruction. But Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:4, “Blessed are they who mourn,…
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Join the Ursuline Sisters to pray for the end of mass violence
Our hearts are grieving as we learn of the shootings at the Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Hamburg, Germany, another act of mass violence. We all feel helpless when facing this senseless destruction. But Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:4, “Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.” The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint…
Join the Ursuline Sisters to pray for the end of mass violence
Our hearts are grieving as we learn of the shootings on the campus of Michigan State University, another act of mass violence. We all feel helpless when facing this senseless destruction. But Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:4, “Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.” The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph…
Ursuline Sisters support statement by Black Catholic Sisters’ Conference concerning the death of Tyre Nichols
The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph support the following statement made on January 30, 2023, by the National Black Sisters’ Conference on the death of Tyre Nichols. This statement was shared by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and the Ursuline Sisters stand in solidarity with LCWR and our Black sisters as they speak…
Join the Ursuline Sisters as we pray for an end to mass violence
Our hearts are grieving as we learn of the shootings in Monterey Park, Calif., another act of mass violence. We all feel helpless when facing this senseless destruction. But Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:4, “Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.” The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph ask you to…
Ursulines join with five religious communities to speak together against gun violence
The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph join with five other religious communities in this region to take the following stand to stop gun violence: As we mourn the loss of more than 30 lives in 10 days, our hearts break. In conversations with each other and in our prayers to God, we must ask,…
Sister Angela Fitzpatrick to celebrate being a founding member of NETWORK
In the winter of 1971, Ursuline Sister Angela Fitzpatrick left for a trip to Washington, D.C., which convinced her to be socially active for the rest of her life. She was an Ursuline Sister of Paola, Kan., for barely six years at the time, serving as a pastoral associate at Holy Trinity Parish in Kansas…
Sisters take part in diocese’s initial Josephine Bakhita Mass
More than a dozen Ursuline Sisters were in attendance on Feb. 8, 2022, for the Diocese of Owensboro’s first Memorial Mass for Saint Josephine Bakhita, a day of prayer and awareness against human trafficking. Sisters and others gathered in St. Stephen Cathedral on the feast day of Saint Josephine Bakhita, the patron saint of human…
Sister Jacinta is still needed at the Mexican border
Ursuline Sister Jacinta Powers expected to spend the first six months of 2020 serving migrants at the Mexican border. Her year – like everyone else’s in 2020 – took an unexpected turn. Sister Jacinta continues to serve in Matamoros, Mexico, with Global Response Management, where she expects to remain at least through December. “I was…
A letter to the editor of the Courier-Journal and The Record about the DACA ruling
To the Editor: Together with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), we celebrate the recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down President Trump’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The Court’s ruling safeguards the right of 700,000 DACA recipients to live and work in the country that is their home. DACA…