Focus On...Justice and Peace
Iowa Catholic Sisters Pledge Not to Forget
Submitted on: 4/05/2007Contact Person: Melissa L. Looney
News releases were sent to local and religious newspapers in November 2006, displaying efforts of U.S. Catholic sisters to help citizens to not forget the suffering from Hurrican Katrina. Iowa Catholic sisters joined the national efforts by supporting sisters in New Orleans.....read more
Sisters Protest at Government Nuclear Arms Sites
Submitted on: 4/05/2007Contact Person: Beth Kress, PBVM
Publicity featured peace rallies and arrests of sisters in August 2005 and previous years at the School of the Americas, at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, facility for Y-12 missile production, the Nevada test site and at others sites.....read more
Sisters Call for Diplomacy and Nonviolence
Submitted on: 4/05/2007Contact Person: Mira Mosle, BVM
Anti-war media messages were made with print ads in February and March 2003....read more
Sisters Urge Debt Reduction
Submitted on: 10/09/2007Contact Person: Sallyann McCarthy
Catholic Sisters, whose vow of poverty and commitment to care for the Earth all but forbid them to use such "wasteful luxuries" as paper plates, are buying and using paper plates by the hundreds this month -- but not for eating! American Catholic Sisters have embraced the "Cancel Debt Fast" advocacy campaign - a 40-day rolling fast from September 6 to October 16, during which supporters of debt cancellation will fast for a day or more........read more
