Thanks for your support and kind words

From Bryan Cones in a June 12 U.S. Catholic article…
Above and beyond the call | USCatholic.org
It must be hard being a Sister in America. You spend a century creating a hospital system from scratch and educating generations of Catholic children of every race and class on a shoestring. Not only are you barely paid for [...]

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A profound experience of mutuality

So, if you’ve been following my Twitter or Facebook updates, you know I’ve been running from one thing to the next the past several weeks, the latest of which was the big Silver Jubilee celebration at the mothership in Baden, PA on Saturday. There is a lot to blog about, but for now, let me [...]

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Busted…

Welcome to any new visitors from the ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) conference who may be seeing my blog for the first time!
Ok…so the ASEE camera caught me in the act of dancing at Stubb’s BBQ. Thanks to National Instruments and Freescale for hosting a nice party…here’s hoping I win the drawing for the [...]

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Reject fear…

From Nicholas D. Kristof’s Thursday column in the NY Times…
Op-Ed Columnist – This Time, We Won’t Scare – NYTimes.com
Rick Scott, a former hospital company chief executive, leads a group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. He was forced to resign as C.E.O. after his company defrauded the government through overbilling and is now spending his time [...]

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More on the apostolic visitation

The sister heading up the process for the apostolic visitation of women’s religious congregations in the U.S. asked the leaders of the congregations to propose possible candidates for the visitation teams.
U.S. women religious study raising new concerns | National Catholic Reporter
Millea’s letter noted that those who take part in the work “will be acting in [...]

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Home, sweet home, an ongoing saga

I have a very good reason for not writing a post in so long…in fact, several good reasons….two jubilee celebrations, seven out-of-town guests this past weekend, packing/moving to a new residence…
So, since I am still not done with the move, and I’m still making some arrangements for the June 20 jubilee celebration, I’m going to [...]

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