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Study on priest and religious student debt finds it can be a barrier to vocations
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 1, 2024 / 08:00 am A new study on student debt by a major Catholic research group, released today, sheds light on the challenges debt poses to prospective Catholic priests and religious as well as to U.S. dioceses and religious institutes. The researchers found that a discerning …
Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Esther Marie Humbert dies at age 85
DELHI TOWNSHIP, OHIO – Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Esther Marie Humbert died June 22, 2024, at the age of 85 in Mother Margaret Hall, the nursing facility for the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. Sister Esther Marie was born on July 25, 1938, to Stanley J. Humbert and C. …
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Welcome Novice Karina Montes-Ayala
Delhi Township, Ohio – Members of the Sisters of Charity Community welcomed Karina Montes-Ayala into the Canonical Novitiate during a vespers service Sunday, June 9, 2024, in the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the Mount St. Joseph Motherhouse. The purpose of the one-year Canonical Novitiate is to enable Karina to learn …
The nun in a tent: Meet the sister who’s following the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
By Kate Quiñones Denver, Colo., Jun 12, 2024 / 16:00 pm In her day-to-day life, Sister Mary Rose Chinn of the Handmaids of the Triune God works with public school kids in Ventura, California, a coastal city northwest of Los Angeles. But this summer, she hit the road to camp out …
Obituary: Worldwide Praise For Charismatic Leader, Sr Teresita Weind, SNDdeN
Ipswich MA, USA – April 29, 2024 Sr. Teresita Weind, SNDdeN, Congregational Leader of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDdeN) for 14 years, died on April 28, 2024 at 81 years of age, after some months of painful suffering at Mount Notre Dame Health Center (MNDHC) in Cincinnati, …
100 years! Celebrating a century of community at our home on Salem Avenue
On Aug. 28, 1923, Sisters of the Precious Blood were welcomed with the pealing of bells upon their arrival at the new motherhouse on Salem Avenue. Founded in 1834 in Switzerland by Maria Anna Brunner, Sisters of the Precious Blood first arrived in the U.S. in 1844 when three Sisters …
Somewhere it Hides A Well
Author Angie Kim shares that she was inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous book, The Little Prince, when she was a child in Seoul, Korea. Her attention riveted on these lines: “One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs and …
Obituary: Mental health advocate Sister Margaret McCabe was ahead of her time
[Cincinnati, OH] Margaret “Peggy” McCabe of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, age 80, passed away on April 7, 2024. The daughter of Irish immigrants, McCabe was born May 27, 1943, in Philadelphia. As a child, she was educated in Catholic parish schools and at West Catholic High School. …
Sister Rosemary Wack of Dayton was a teacher, administrator, religious leader and nurse
[Cincinnati, OH] Rosemary Wack of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, age 95, passed away on March 24, 2024. Born February 18, 1929, Wack survived scarlet fever and the Great Depression. She was educated at Julienne High School in Dayton and was called to enter the Notre Dame de …
The hidden history of Black Catholic nuns in the U.S.
Washington D.C., Feb 11, 2021 / 04:10 pm MT (CNA).- Black Catholic nuns have made manifold contributions to the Church in the United States, and theirs is a story that needs to be told, one historian says. Generations of black Catholic women “fought against racism in order to answer God’s …
