Transforming Sisters' Assets

Some of the young people of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians in Wisconsin, during an Aug. 30 outing to the Buttonhook Forest property in Chappaqua, New York. The visit of young people was shepherded by the Dominican Sisters of Hope, whose sponsored ministry, the Center at Mariandale, hosted the visitors. (GSR photo/Chris Herlinger)

Whose land is this land? Sisters, Native tribes begin process of land justice

Communities of women religious have established relationships with Native tribes whose ancestral lands the sisters currently own, and consider what land justice could look like under their care.

Chris Herlinger

Ursuline Sr. Amelia Stenger teaches students from Sts. Peter and Paul School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, about growing a garden sustainably on the grounds of the Mount St. Joseph motherhouse in Daviess County. (Courtesy of Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph)

Shinnecock women, allied with Catholic sisters, farm kelp to restore bay waters

Sisters have property questions, and a Notre Dame program can help with answers

Nuns and Nones project teaches sisters how to create land legacies for justice

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The Spanish Mission style buildings on the Victory Noll campus in Huntington, Indiana, have been sold to the county community corrections program for its drug court program aimed at getting drug addicts treatment instead of jail terms. (GSR/Dan Stockman)

Jan 13, 2022

Sisters divesting their assets work to transform them into agents of change

Congregations across the U.S. are transforming their remaining assets, such as land and buildings. Some simply sell what they have, out of need. Others, like the Victory Nolls, are going further.

ByDan Stockman

Courtyard of Maison St.-Charles in Paris

Jan 01, 2018

Paris Dominicans turn property into home for families, students, sisters

The Dominican Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin are taking an innovative approach to give a new purpose to their property in Paris. Instead of selling it due to the decrease in the number of sisters and the excess of space, they have transformed Maison St-Charles into a home for families, students, and sisters. Discover how this initiative is providing affordable housing and a shared workspace in a popular neighborhood of the French capital.

ByElisabeth Auvillain

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