Making a Difference for Hungry Neighbors
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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Dialogue on Catholic Investments and Sustainability
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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Post-Dispatch Article Shares Convent’s Time Capsule Reveal
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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St. Louis Review Shines Spotlight on West Lake
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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“Divestment from Fossil Fuels Is a Witness to Our Faith”
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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International Day of Forests
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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Catholic Sisters: The Spirit of St. Louis
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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Gateway Greening Holds Conference
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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A Letter on West Lake Landfill
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, West Lake Landfill
Sr. Sherri Coleman, FSM, wrote a letter urging the complete removal of all radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill; the letter was published Monday, February 26, 2018, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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West Lake–Your Response Is Needed!
Category: Caring for Creation, West Lake Landfill
The EPA’s proposed remedy for the radioactive waste illegally buried at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Mo., removes only 70 percent of the radioactive waste, leaving 30 percent of the lethal material still in place. The Franciscan Sisters of Mary, in accord with neighbors and others concerned about our environment, find this remedy unacceptable.
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