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Book by RSCJ takes first-place awards
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Friday, 11 June 2004
bbowe_thTwo first-place awards at the Catholic Press Association Awards Dinner on May 28 went to a book by Sister Barbara E. Bowe, Biblical Foundations of Spirituality: Touching a Finger to the Flame.
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Sister Roche writes on Haiti for NCR
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Friday, 04 June 2004

An article by Sister Diane Roche on Haiti, “getting back to normal,” appears in the June 4 issue of National Catholic Reporter. “Last week, our community of Sacred Heart sisters traveled from Verrettes to Port au Prince for a meeting, and I found myself thinking, “Thank God, things are getting back to normal,” she wrote. “At the same time, I am new enough to Haiti to find ‘normal’ somewhat shocking.”

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RSCJ invites people to visit Haiti
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Tuesday, 01 June 2004
visit_haiti_th RSCJ, Sacred Heart alumnae/i, co-workers and friends are invited to join Sister Anita von Wellsheim on a September 5-12 trip to Haiti sponsored by Fonkoze, Haiti’s alternative bank for the organized poor. Registration is due June 20.
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Harlem service agency gets new building
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Tuesday, 01 June 2004
harlem1_thIn East Harlem, New York City, several RSCJ were among celebrants at a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 5 for a new home for Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service.
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Upgraded RSCJ-sponsored website opened to the public
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Monday, 24 May 2004
rscjstats_thJusticeNet, an RSCJ-sponsored website, has been completely redesigned and upgraded and is now open to the public. JusticeNet is a site which seeks to "create an active electronic community of justice and peace, a community of conscience–partners who engage, study, reflect, change and act at all levels on what causes injustice."
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Sister Hughes honored for liturgical contributions
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Saturday, 15 May 2004
hughes_thSister Kathleen Hughes, rscj, has been designated recipient of the Frederick R. McManus Award for 2004. The national award is given annually to recognize significant contributions to liturgical renewal in the United States.
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Sister Nordman honored as Peacemaker
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Saturday, 15 May 2004
nordman_thSister Lucie Nordmann, rscj, received one of twelve Catholic Women Awards at ceremony in St. Louis on March 28. Sister Nordmann, patient/family advocate at St. Luke’s Hospital, Chesterfield, Missouri, since 1995, was honored in the category of Peacemaker.
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Manhattanville confers honorary degrees on two RSCJ
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Monday, 10 May 2004
Sisters Eileen O’Gorman, rscj and Ruth Dowd, rscj, will receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees at the Manhattanville College commencement May 13, 2004.
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Sister Bartunek appointed to endowed chair
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Saturday, 01 May 2004
Sister Jean Bartunek, rscj, has been selected as the first occupant of an endowed academic chair in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Her appointment is effective June 1. Sister Bartunek is a professor in the graduate management school. She is also immediate past president of the Academy of Management, an international academic organization with 6,000 members. The chair was recently established by Robert and Evelyn Ferris of Atherton, California.
 
Barbara Quinn rscj featured for program on workplace ethics
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Sunday, 11 April 2004
Sister Barbara Quinn’s program on “Business Leaders and Spirituality” was featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune on April 11. Sister Quinn heads the Center for Christian Spirituality at the University of San Diego. In the recent program, eight business leaders met for eight Tuesday mornings to discuss ways to integrate “what they believe with how they behave.”
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Society's international website makes its debut on April 1
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Thursday, 01 April 2004
A new website for the international Society of the Sacred Heart made its public debut on April 1, 2004. The new site, www.rscjinternational.org, a project two years in the making, reflects the breadth of the Society’s ministries as it carries out its mission in 45 countries around the globe. Contents will be available in three languages: English, French and Spanish.
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Sprout Creek Farm cheese takes international honors; is featured on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Monday, 15 March 2004

Recognition rolled in the first two weeks of March for artisan cheeses produced by Sprout Creek Farm. The week of March 14, two of the farm’s cheeses, Ouray and Barat, received honors at the 2004 World Championship Cheese Contest, which drew 1,500 entries from around the world. The week before, producers for BravoTV’s program “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” selected the farm’s Ouray cheese as one of the featured foods on a segment of the show.

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Alums invited to summer service program in LaBelle
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Monday, 15 March 2004

Sacred Heart alumnae are invited to LaBelle July 13-18 to help build a Habitat for Humanity house and to reflect on the spiritual and social realities they have encountered. Participants will have opportunities for recreation, including swimming and kayaking, and for spiritual direction.

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RSCJ attend Woodlands centennial
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Sunday, 01 February 2004
Twenty Religious of the Sacred Heart attended a celebration in January to mark the 100th anniversary of Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Society’s Central Team to visit United States
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Sunday, 01 February 2004
Three members of the General Council, or Central Team, of the international Society of the Sacred Heart will be visiting the United States Province from February 25 through March 31.
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Maureen Glavin, rscj, appointed head of school in St. Charles
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Sunday, 01 February 2004

glavin_thMaureen Glavin, rscj, has been appointed head of school at Academy of the Sacred Heart, St. Charles, Mo. She will succeed Margaret Caire, rscj, who is retiring. Sister Caire has been head of school in St. Charles for twenty years.

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Shelter for homeless opens in former noviceship
Written by Gail O’Donnell, rscj   
Thursday, 01 January 2004
mckay_house_thDecember 2, 2003 was bitterly cold in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That didn’t deter a crowd of people, including Mayor Michael A. Sullivan and State Representative Alice Wolfe, from coming out for the opening of the McKay House at 265 Rindge Avenue.
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Shirley Miller, rscj appointed Director of Mission Advancement
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Thursday, 01 January 2004
miller_thSister Shirley Miller, rscj, headmistress of Sacred Heart schools for 25 years in Omaha, Neb., and New Orleans, La., has been appointed director of mission advancement for the United States Province of her religious order, the Society of the Sacred Heart.
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Carolyn Osiek, rscj, named president-elect of the Society of Biblical Literature
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Monday, 01 December 2003
osiek_thSister Carolyn Osiek, rscj, professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, is the new vice-president, president-elect of the Society of Biblical Literature. She is only the fourth woman, and the eighth Catholic, to be elected to that post in the 123-year history of the international scholarly organization.
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Hooray for Ouray!
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Wednesday, 05 November 2003

ouray_margo_thSprout Creek Farm Cheese featured in New York Times. Ouray cheese, one of the fine artisan cheeses made at Sprout Creek Farm, was featured in the New York Times on Wednesday, November 5. Ouray, available for purchase online, is one of five new American cheeses recommended in Florence Fabricant's column in the Food Stuff section of the Times.

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Carolyn Osiek, rscj, Advisor on New Film about Jesus
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Saturday, 01 November 2003

gospel_john_thWhile U.S. theater goers await Mel Gibson’s “The Passion,” a film about the life of Jesus, another film about Jesus, “The Gospel of John,” is making news in several U.S. cities. Carolyn Osiek, rscj, professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, is one of nine biblical scholars from the United States and Canada who served on an advisory panel to the film’s producers.

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