Jane Quinlan is a member of the Ursulines of Tildonk, U.S. Province. Classroom teacher, missionary to the Democratic Republic of Congo and vocation minister, she later represented her order at the U.N. She now serves in Brussels, Belgium, as Assistant General Superior of her congregation.
by GSR Staff
June 19, 2018
"We have to see it in terms of the community and how we live together with our diversity. We welcome the stranger because we're strangers ourselves. We're strangers to one another."
Imelda Maurer is a Sister of Divine Providence, San Antonio. With experience as a secondary classroom teacher and later a community organizer with sugarcane farmworkers and later with textile workers in Appalachia, she brings this same passion for advocacy to her present ministry, In Service to Our Own, a nonprofit organization of which she is founder and director.
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June 18, 2018
Among the signers are 37 dioceses, close to 200 religious communities, more than 100 parishes, 61 Catholic universities, and more than a dozen Catholic health care organizations. "If we know creation is a gift for us to enjoy, to safeguard and to protect for future generations, climate change presents us with a moral crisis and a moral question," said Sr. Sharlet Wagner, president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
Cecilia Oluchi Dimaku is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. After holding school and diocesan business positions, she served 12 years in leadership in Nigeria. She is now payroll/personnel coordinator at the Sisters of the Holy Family academy in New Orleans.
Tarianne DeYonker is a Dominican Sister of Adrian, Michigan. A teacher, administrator, marriage/family therapist, and program developer, she also served in community leadership. She is now in vocation work and facilitating creative writing workshops.
Lydia Collado is a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in Northern Samar, Philippines, where she heads the Sacred Heart Institute for Transformative Education (SHIFT) Foundation; it does campus/ pastoral ministry, operates a nursery, and manages an organic demonstration farm, Sophie's Farm.
Karlyn Cauley is a Sister of the Divine Savior in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A studio artist, she taught art and worked with sisters in temporary vows for many years. Presently she does ecumenical work in the adult spirituality of women.
Lilian Bong is a Sister of St. Joseph of the Apparition who was born in Malaysia. As a nurse she did medical mission outreach in Myanmar, before entering her community. She ministers in Western Australia as a Provincial Councilor and in vocation / mission appeal.
Adriana Haro Betancourt is a member of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity. Orginally from Mexico, she currently works in youth ministry in the Philippines, does congregational communication committee work, and produces a weekly online radio program for youth evangelization.