La Roche College announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Education approved its application to become La Roche University effective March 26, 2019. Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D., president of La Roche, announced the transition during a celebration for students, faculty and staff. Alumni and friends from across the country and world joined the president for the announcement via Facebook Live. [...]
La Posada Providencia is a refugee house in San Benito, Texas sponsored by the Sisters of Divine Providence of Allison Park, PA. This ministry was started by the former province in St. Louis, MO. For many years now Sisters and staff have "welcomed the stranger" to our country. With the immigration crisis at our borders, La Posada has been overwhelmed [...]
Sister Veronica Kim loves the La Roche College community so much that she refers to herself as the campus mom. But Kim admitted that she never would have imagined she would one day work in the education field in America. Kim was born and raised in South Korea—a place she credits for profoundly impacting her life. She said that Korean [...]
The Women of Providence in Collaboration met for their annual board meeting on April 10-11, 2019 at the Genesis Spirituality and Life Center in Westfield, MA. The following Sisters are the new officers for the Executive Committee of the Board: Front row sitting: Kathleen Popko, SP--Vice-Chair, Alice Marie Lyon, CDP-Treasurer Back row: standing: Dawn Tomaszewski, SP--Chair, Barbara McMullen, CDP--Executive Director, [...]
The Sisters of Divine Providence, in Allison Park, PA, began a Refugee Assistance project in earnest in September 2018, as they welcomed asylum-seeking refugees from La Posada Providencia—their sponsored ministry located in San Benito, Texas—to Pittsburgh. The refugee families—mostly mothers with young children, originally from Central America and Africa—live in a fully furnished, equipped and family-friendly six-bedroom house donated to [...]
The Sisters of Divine Providence sponsor La Posada Providencia, in San Benito,Texas. It is a house for those seeking asylum in our country. The clients come from many different countries and usually are fleeing from internal country wars, oppression, poverty, gangs, and looking for a better and safer life for themselves and their children. When they come to La Posada [...]
Sisters of Divine Providence, Marie de la Roche Province - The Sisters of Divine Providence build on the legacy our founders, Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and Mother Marie de la Roche, by challenging Sisters and Associates to live and work for justice and peace. Implement the justice ministry as set forth at the General & Provincial Chapters. Educate Sisters [...]
Sister Karina Conrad, along with Sisters Ana Lydia Sonera Matos and Marise Hrabosky, organized our participation in Pittsburgh’s March for Our Lives event on March 24. An estimated 30,000 people took to the streets in downtown Pittsburgh. The event—created, inspired and led by students across the country—was in response to the February 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school [...]
Northeast Wilderness Trust (NWT), a conservation organization based in Vermont, announced the conservation of 305 acres of Pine Barrens habitat located on Bishop’s Highway/Route 80 in Kingston, MA. NWT purchased the 305 acres from the Sisters of Divine Providence. To purchase the property, NWT received a charitable donation of funds from Kingston-based L. Knife & Son, one of the Sheehan [...]
Sister Celine Maasen, found a way to help others and the environment in living a life of service. Sister Celine is a resident of Saint Clare’s Villa, located on the campus of OSF HealthCare Saint Clare’s Hospital, Alton, IL. She found many ways to serve people in her community over the years, and more recently took up crocheting—but not with [...]
