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Stories
We invite you to read stories about the ministries and lives of our sisters, associates, partners, dear neighbors and others in our community.
Eco-Challenge: Reduce your carbon footprint
Our September Eco-Challenge is all about reducing our carbon footprints. This Season of Creation, we’re learning what our carbon footprint is and steps we can take to reduce it.
Adapting to the Signs of the Times
Today, guided by the inspirations of the Holy Spirit, our congregation continues to discern the best way to govern ourselves.
Healing Touch as a Pathway to God and Spirituality
A number of our sisters across the congregation utilize different forms of healing touch and touch therapy as a profound means of extending compassion to people who are suffering physical and emotional pain.
Eco-Challenge: Examine your food’s lifecycle
We often think about what food we eat and its effects on the health of our bodies. We also need to be aware of the impact our food has on the health of our planet.
A visit to Perú
From December 28 through January 20, I had an incredible opportunity to visit the Sisters of St. Joseph in Peru. As the congregation’s communication director, it helped me to get to know the Peruvian sisters better.
Stopping Human Trafficking
Jesus calls us to treat all with dignity and respect and to look at people and creation as sacred beings not objects, yet human trafficking is a growing crime worldwide. Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet are engaged with ending human trafficking by addressing root causes.
Making Changes to Implement Laudato Si’
In 2021, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet established our Laudato Si’ Action Plan to enfold the call of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ into our personal, communal and institutional decision-making over the next seven years and beyond.
Goodbye and Hello
Some of our Los Angeles sisters are now saying goodbye to their home at Carondelet Center and moving to St. John of God Care Center, where they are experiencing a big hello and welcome! Life changes and so do they—blessings abound!
Plastics Treaty: Moving Toward Consensus
In April, I attended the fourth session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), where diplomats from around the world worked toward consensus in the development of a legally binding instrument to regulate plastic pollution.