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An Earth Day Reflection on our Laudato Si’ Commitment

2024-04-23T17:01:56+00:00

The following is a reflection on the 2023-24 year of the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville's Laudato Si' commitment. Sister Carol Curtis, social concerns coordinator, presented this at the Earth Day Prayer service held on Monday, April 22, 2024. During our Community Days last year, we engaged the theme of Matthew 25 – Lord, when did we see you? And Christ responds, in those most overlooked and in need ...it was Me. During this Easter season, we are reminded again that Christ is among us as one we do not recognize: as a gardener or fellow traveler, or just a stranger on [...]

An Earth Day Reflection on our Laudato Si’ Commitment2024-04-23T17:01:56+00:00

A Call For Justice

2023-05-15T14:25:01+00:00

Our very own Sister Janet Peterworth is a guest columnist for Global Sisters Report with a thought-provoking article, "Today's labor and union battles echo coal miners' calls for justice." You may read it here: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/columns/todays-labor-and-union-battles-echo-coal-miners-calls-justice

A Call For Justice2023-05-15T14:25:01+00:00

“And they’re off!” Human Trafficking and the Kentucky Derby

2023-05-01T17:10:31+00:00

By Sister Janet M. Peterworth, OSU “And they’re off!” These are important words in horse racing. But nowhere are they more important than on the first Saturday of May in Louisville, Kentucky, because these words start the Kentucky Derby, the fastest two minutes in sports and the race that begins the journey toward the coveted Triple Crown. “And they’re off” are words that also echo in the world of human trafficking around Derby, because the Derby, as well as other sporting events, tends to draw those who are trafficking others into sex trade. And they are off on the roads to [...]

“And they’re off!” Human Trafficking and the Kentucky Derby2023-05-01T17:10:31+00:00

Calling For Action in the Wake of the April 10 Shooting in Louisville

2023-04-21T21:07:04+00:00

The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, along with the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Justice Team, Dominican Sisters of Peace, and the Loretto Community, issued a joint statement about the April 10 mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky. Together, they decried the latest mass shooting and called for the passing of new legislation aimed at curbing gun violence. Read more from Global Sisters Report: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/monday-starter-after-kentucky-mass-shooting-congregations-call-tougher-gun-regulations AND The Record Newspaper: https://therecordnewspaper.org/women-religious-call-for-action-in-wake-of-shooting/

Calling For Action in the Wake of the April 10 Shooting in Louisville2023-04-21T21:07:04+00:00

A Statement by the National Black Sisters Conference on the murder of Tyre Nichols

2023-02-01T17:16:16+00:00

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville stand in solidarity with our Black Sisters as they speak publicly about his death and the urgent need for systemic reform.   A Statement by the National Black Sisters Conference on the murder of Tyre Nichols The New Year is barely a month old. We have just celebrated the national holiday honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the warrior of peace, and the world sadly commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In a few days, we will celebrate Black History Month as we honor [...]

A Statement by the National Black Sisters Conference on the murder of Tyre Nichols2023-02-01T17:16:16+00:00

International Migrants Day and Roses in December

2022-12-19T17:58:54+00:00

By Sister Carol Curtis, OSU Envio los cielos el rocio de lo alto y las nubes derramen la justicia: Abrase la tierra y brote el Salvador. [Is 45,8] Heavens distill dew from on high and clouds rain down justice: Let Earth open and bud forth the Savior. This year, the familiar Advent antiphon resonated with deeper prophetic urgency as I heard it sung in El Salvador at the site of the martyrdom of the Four Churchwomen on December 2nd, the 42nd anniversary of their death, and under the shadow of the government’s broad dragnet of arrests expedited by a protracted State [...]

International Migrants Day and Roses in December2022-12-19T17:58:54+00:00

Sister Carol Curtis Embarks on Roses in December 2022 Pilgrimage

2023-03-14T14:44:26+00:00

Ursuline Sisters of Louisville Carol Curtis, OSU, went to El Salvador in early December, 2022, participating with “The Roses in December” delegation of SHARE with Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) to mark the 42nd anniversary of the martyrdom of the four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador. The delegation will walk with women religious and the communities they accompany to El Salvador and Honduras. On December 2, they visited Chalatenango where Sisters Carla Piette, Ita Ford and Maura Clarke used to work; were welcomed by communities in Los Ranchos and had a celebration of their lives at the cemetery. December 2nd [...]

Sister Carol Curtis Embarks on Roses in December 2022 Pilgrimage2023-03-14T14:44:26+00:00

Statement on Colorado shootings

2022-11-22T20:38:40+00:00

Together with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the Leadership of the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville are committed to working towards a world free from violence, with respect for all living beings. Our hearts are broken for family members, friends, and members of the LGBTQ+ community as they grieve the tragic loss of those killed and those wounded in the Colorado Springs shooting on Saturday, November 19. There can be no tolerance for hate. As women of the Gospel, we oppose any form of exclusion, discrimination, violence or hate speech directed at any group or those who practice a faith tradition [...]

Statement on Colorado shootings2022-11-22T20:38:40+00:00

“I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!”

2022-06-09T14:37:09+00:00

Sister Clara Fehringer, OSU, serves as the Parish Life Director at Historic Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Their mission statement reads: “We are Catholics making a difference in downtown Lexington. A diverse and inclusive community welcoming everyone with open arms!” The following is her reflection on the Gospel of Saint Luke, from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 18, 2019. Jesus came to set the earth on fire—we hear this in the Gospel. His message can cause a lot of division if lived properly and according to the Gospel we read. In front of our church we [...]

“I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!”2022-06-09T14:37:09+00:00

He Seems to Have Forgotten

2018-06-15T20:49:19+00:00

PHOTO CREDIT: RODOLFO GONZALEZ / AMERICAN-STATESMAN By Ginny Schaeffer, Director of Angela Merici Center for Spirituality While speaking to a group of law enforcement personnel on June 14th, Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a passage from the Bible (Romans 13: 1-2) in an attempt to garner some divine stamp of approval on the  administration’s “zero policy” towards  refugees and asylum seekers crossing our southern border. This is the same immoral policy that is separating children, some as young as a year old, from their parents. Jeff Sessions needs to be very careful, as we all do, of how he uses individual [...]

He Seems to Have Forgotten2018-06-15T20:49:19+00:00
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