Category: FSM Updates
As an order of Catholic Sisters who have devoted our lives to nurturing the health and well-being of others—particularly women and children—we, the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, are distressed beyond words at the cruelty taking place at our borders. We condemn in the strongest terms the bullying of defenseless children and parents that has taken…
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Category: FSM Updates
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary Focus Implementation Group invites you to join in celebrating World Environmental Health Day and World Rivers Day, commemorated worldwide this month
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Category: Caring for Creation
September has been designated “Care of Creation” month.
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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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