As of mid-May, five RSCJ had formed a community at Teresian House, a skilled care facility in Albany, New York, operated by the Carmelite Sisters of the Aged and Infirm. Although Teresian House is a large facility – 300 residents – it is divided into "neighborhoods" of fifteen to twenty residents, each with its own living and kitchen/dining area. Daily activities take place in these areas. They are comfortably furnished in various styles to simulate home environments. Each resident has a private room and bath. A large, bright chapel is situated on the first floor.

Elizabeth White, RSCJ, will receive an honorary degree from Boston College on May 22 in recognition of her lifelong commitment as a Religious of the Sacred Heart to the ministry of teaching. Sister White, a specialist in English literature, has spent more than five decades in higher education at Newton College of the Sacred Heart in Boston and at Boston College. She holds a doctoral degree from Catholic University in Washington D.C.

"Deus Caritas Est has been a happy surprise in every way both for what it contains and what it does not," wrote Kathleen Hughes, RSCJ, in a reflection on the first encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, or "God is Love," promulgated on December 25, 2005.

"As President Bush hustled through town Thursday morning, the proper young ladies of the Academy of the Sacred Heart were in Jackson Square, wearing life jackets over their plaid-skirt uniforms, and politely but firmly demanding better levees." So begins an article in the New York Times on Friday, January 13, about a demonstration in New Orleans' French Quarter by more than 200 students from Academy of the Sacred Heart ("the Rosary").

Friends of Virginia O’Meara and members of her religious community in St. Louis organized an exhibition and sale of her art work at Maryville University, where Sister O’Meara taught for many years. More than $10,000 was raised at the November 5 event in a silent auction of framed works and sales of collages, prints and art books.

Janet Rhodes, bookkeeper for the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S. Province, marked 25 years in the post on November 3 with a celebration at the Society’s U.S. Province headquarters in St. Louis. The U.S. provincial team and province staff members in St. Louis attended a luncheon in Rhodes’ honor at the provincial house on her anniversary.

Eve Kavanagh, RSCJ, received the Woman of Spirit Award at an annual event sponsored by two women’s organizations affiliated with Catholic parishes in Larchmont, New York. Sister Kavanagh is a registered nurse who serves with the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service in East Harlem, New York, where she serves patients of all ages who live in poverty.

In order to better reflect the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart, particularly the principles set forth in the documents of Chapter 2000, and the realities of today’s world as viewed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the Sacred Heart Commission on Goals spent a year giving new expression to the 1990 version of the Goals and Criteria for Sacred Heart Schools in the United States.

Jean Bartunek, RSCJ, was installed October 3 as Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair at Boston College, where she is professor of organization studies. Sister Bartunek is director of the doctoral program in organization studies and a past president of the international Academy of Management. She earned a bachelor's degree at Maryville College of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis (now Maryville University), where she presently serves as a member of the board.

Kathleen Conan, RSCJ, was installed as provincial of the U .S. Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart on Sunday, August 14, in a liturgy at the Shrine of Saint Philippine Duchesne in St. Charles, Missouri. Installed with her were the three other members of her new provincial team, Sisters Anne Byrne, Maria Hernandez and Paula Toner.