Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Philanthropic Initiatives
Presence is a word we use often as FSM. It is at the center of our mission – to be the presence of the loving, serving, compassionate, healing Jesus. In this time when we cannot be physically present with one another, it is especially important to remember what presence means to us: presence is a…
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Category: FSM Updates, Reflections From Our Sisters
On August 14, 663 LCWR members sent the following letter to President Trump calling on him to end all divisive rhetoric.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
On Wednesday, April 17, 2019, two climate superheroes—Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg—agreed to continue the work of fighting climate change.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
Seven Franciscan Sisters of Mary attended the “Cairns at the Confluence Reception” Sunday afternoon, March 24, at the Bonsack Gallery of John Burroughs School in Ladue.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Investing for Impact, Philanthropic Initiatives
At the Catholic Divestment Conference, FSM’s CEO and CFO John O’Shaughnessy presented the financial case for divestment from fossil fuels for Catholic organizations.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Investing for Impact, Philanthropic Initiatives
On Friday, March 15, 2019, St. Louisans joined people in more than a hundred countries in the Youth Climate Strike.
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Category: FSM Updates, Investing for Impact
Whether you have known Catholic sisters personally as teachers or healthcare professionals, or have been inspired by their courage as they confront powerful leaders in the name of justice, or have been touched by their caring presence in times of distress, we invite you to Stand with Sisters!
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary Focus Implementation Group is presenting a program about knowing our place in a region of rivers—both a celebration of our locale and a call for protecting our water-rich region.
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Category: FSM Updates, Investing for Impact
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary and their commitment to impact investing were featured in the January 2019 issue of St. Anthony Messenger.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Investing for Impact
John O’Shaughnessy, CEO and CFO for the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, was featured in the podcast “Why Faith-Based Organizations Are Shifting to Impact Investing,” part of the “From Back Street to Wall Street” podcast series produced by Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and Knowledge@Wharton through the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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