Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Philanthropic Initiatives
The World Meeting of Families will begin Tuesday, August 21, in Dublin, Ireland, and culminates on Sunday, August 26, with Pope Francis celebrating Mass with an estimated 600,000 pilgrims in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
Srs. Sherri Coleman, Jeanne Derer, Irma Kennebeck, Marge O’Gorman, and Sandy Schwartz, all members of the FSM Focus Implementation Group, attended the Sisters of Earth Conference at Mount St. Joseph University on the grounds of the Sisters of Charity in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 12 to 15.
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Category: FSM Updates, Philanthropic Initiatives
More than a quarter of the people who live in the St. Louis area are considered food-insecure, resulting in poor access to food and poor health.
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Category: FSM Updates
John O’Shaughnessy, CEO/CFO for the Franciscan Sisters of Mary and treasurer for the Global Catholic Climate Movement, returned home from Rome with great news for our common home.
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Category: FSM Updates
The contents of the time capsule from the former FSM Motherhouse, St. Mary of the Angels Convent, were revealed in a special ceremony in the lobby of SSM St. Mary’s Health Center in Richmond Heights on May 8, 2018.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, West Lake Landfill
The efforts to clean up the radioactive wastes resulting from the Manhattan Project in the St. Louis area were the focus of an in-depth story, “Chain Reaction,” published in the St. Louis Review.
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Category: FSM Updates
The article “Divestment from Fossil Fuels Is a Witness to Our Faith” by FSM CEO/CFO John O’Shaughnessy and Erin Lothes, associate professor and theologian at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, New Jersey, has been published in the National Catholic Reporter.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
The FSM Focus Implementation Group wishes to call your attention to an often-overlooked proclamation—the International Day of Forests (IDF), which occurs March 21 each year.
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Category: FSM Updates
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary are featured in the exhibit “Catholic Sisters: The Spirit of St. Louis,” taking place in the Carnegie Room of the Central Branch of the St. Louis Public Library downtown from March 3 to April 28.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
Gateway Greening, an FSM collaborator that sponsors organic, sustainable community gardens in the St. Louis area, held its annual Community Agriculture Conference Sunday, February 25, 2018. Five FSM—Srs. Sherri Coleman, Jeanne Derer, André Evanicsko, Marge O’Gorman, and Sandy Schwartz—attended.
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