The Rockville Center Diocese presented its Founders Awards at its annual Vespers at St. Anthony’s HS Chapel on May 5, 2019. This award is presented in gratitude to members of religious orders who have enfleshed the charism of their congregations and enriched the faith of the people of Rockville Center through their ministry and witness. We congratulate Sister Rosalie Carven…
On April 5, 2019, Sister Tesa Fitzgerald, CSJ was honored with the Irish Echo Community Champions Award. Click here for more. She reports that there were great accolades from the crowd for the Sisters of St. Joseph. Sister Tesa has also been named the 2019 Champion of Child Well-Being. (Click here to learn more about this award.) She is amongst a great group of…
The Long Island Progressive Coalition celebrated its 40 years of working for social, economic, and racial justice on Long Island at a Gala on May 1, 2019. Among the honorees was Sister Karen Burke who received the Long Islander Who Has Made A Difference Award. Sister Karen has spearheaded efforts to implement the Land Ethic Statement of the Congregation. She…
Through an affirmation of the CSJ Land Ethic Statement we committed “To monitor the ways in which we use and consume necessary products and to consider options for obtaining products that are not harmful to the land, the inhabitants, or the bioregion.” The Sisters of St. Joseph are in the process of installing two dual-port ChargePoint Electric Vehicle (EV) Chargers on our Brentwood campus that…
Sister Joan Gallagher, Janet Kinney and Susan Wilcox joined other members of the Sisters of St. Joseph Federation in El Paso to work with families seeking asylum.On the first day the group helped to set up a new shelter Casa del Refugiado. They are divided into two shifts to cover the various ebbs and flows of the shelter.Trips to the…
On Friday, April 12, 2019 County Executive Steve Bellone held a press conference on the campus of the Sisters of St. Joseph Brentwood to announce the acquisition of development rights on 27 acres of the Sisters’ farmland. By selling development rights to Suffolk County for farmland preservation, the Sisters have perpetually extinguished the right to develop these 27 acres for…
The Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty eradication, economic development, and aid effectiveness. Also featured are…
Feminist theologian and Sister of St. Joseph Elizabeth Johnson joins Fr. James Martin, SJ, on Faith in Focus for a conversation on how the feminine qualities of God can enrich our church and our prayer lives. View the discussion here: Faith in Focus Click on photo
The Mary Louis Academy Elizabeth Goberdhan, TMLA Sophomore, has received the 2019 Official Triple C Award presented by and in collaboration with NYS Attorney General’s Office & Philo4thought. This certificate of merit is awarded to a student who has displayed “a remarkable level of Character, Courage and Commitment in her personal growth and outreach to become an active member of…
A campaign by faith-based investors and investment networks, spearheaded by the Sisters of St. Joseph led the nation’s largest consumer bank to announce it intended to stop investing in private prison firms. Starting with an October 2017 letter, the effort resulted in JPMorgan Chase announcing March 5 that it would cease financing two of the leading private prison corporations, Geo…