St. Joseph Hostel Girls Look Back and Ahead By Sister Jackie Goodin, CSJ It’s not very often that a teenage girl in Tanzania is asked to reflect on her life and or journey of maturation into young adulthood. Children here are so accustomed to simply repeating what another adult, typically their teacher, instructs them on […]
Category: Congregation News
WELCOME SARAH!
On Saturday, September 3, 2016, the Congregation of St. Joseph joyfully and officially welcomed Sarah Simmons (center) as a candidate for vowed membership in an Entrance Ceremony at our Nazareth Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sister Christine Parks, CSJ, a member of our Leadership Team (left), welcomed and blessed Sarah as Sister Sandra Melanson, CSJ, Sarah’s […]
StepStone Opens New Housing Complex for Victims of Domestic Violence
For over 20 years, StepStone, a sponsored ministry of the congregation, has provided help and hope to survivors of domestic violence in Wichita by providing safe homes where they and their children can begin again without fear. On September 7, StepStone expanded the number of homes available for survivor families with the grand opening of […]
LCWR Calls for a Return to Civil Discourse
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious has issued a statement urging a return to civility and decency during this presidential campaign in order to promote positive and productive dialogue You can read this Call for Civil Discourse for the Public Good here. In addition, thousands of women religious have signed a letter to the candidates […]
Congregation Releases Statement Regarding North Korea
The board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), of which the Congregation of St. Joseph is a member, affirmed and approved the following statement at their annual gathering in Orlando this week. It has been sent to President Trump at the White House. LCWR Statement on the US-North Korea Crisis This week, while […]
Congregation Announces Plans for Cleveland Property
The Congregation of St. Joseph is pleased to announce that ground will be broken on a new home for our sisters in Cleveland and the River’s Edge Spirituality Center on its existing property on Rocky River Drive later this year. After a period of exploration, it became clear that the sisters’ existing motherhouse could […]
Saint Joseph Academy Selected as the First Recipient of the Bishop Richard Lennon Award
Sponsored ministry, Saint Joseph Academy in Cleveland has been unanimously selected as the inaugural recipient of The Bishop Richard Lennon Award. The award is a sign of gratitude for service to the Diocese of Cleveland and inspiration to its schools. The Bishop Richard Lennon Award is given to a school who, through its […]
Update on MIssion Haiti 2017
From March 12 – 20, 2017, Sisters Mary Ellen Gondeck, CSJ, and Sue Torgersen, CSJ, and associates Judy Iantosca and Brooke Whitten along with her three daughters, traveled to Haiti to check in on Mission Haiti, Inc., a U.S. Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph initiative which sponsors 10 girls from elementary through secondary school […]
Sisters and Students in Crookston Work Together to Fight Human Traffciking
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Student United Way – Crookston Chapter joined forces with the Sisters of St. Joseph to work on a project called S.O.A.P. (Stop Our Adolescents from Prostitution). The students put labels on soaps that contain the National Human Trafficking Hotline. These soaps, along […]
Work Toward Gender Equality Continues at UN Event
The Congregation of St. Joseph has a long history of supporting women and women’s issues, and that includes gender equality. Recently, members of our Peace & Justice Team – Sisters Mary Ellen Loch, CSJ, and Rose Ann Hefner, CSJ, and team member Judith Wilkinson – attended the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), […]
