A partner to the Mercy Community, Pax Christi USA offers resources and education focused on Nonviolence
Pax Christi USA held their 50th anniversary conference in August of 2022. Read the text of Marie Dennis’s acceptance speech as she receives the Teacher of Peace award.
This homily was offered by Pax Christi USA’s bishop president, Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv., during the closing Eucharistic liturgy at the 50th anniversary national conference
Read the keynote address given by Bishop John C. Wester at the national conference.
More than 50 sisters, associates and colleagues in ministry joined the Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 18, 2022. Sister Carren Herring and Sister Diane Guerin recently reflected on what it was like to be a part of this momentous event!
The Sisters of Mercy denounce the extrajudicial killing by police of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man in Akron, Ohio, on June 27, and the mass shooting during the July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois, which left seven people dead and dozens critically injured. We offer prayers for the family and all who loved Jayland Walker, and for those whose lives were taken or whose bodies were injured, for their family and friends and the whole community of Highland Park.
By Karel Lucander, Features Writer
— Sister Joan Serda and Sister Marilyn Graf have that feeling you get right before you embark on a big adventure. At 6 a.m. on June 17, they will board the Poor People’s Campaign Bus in Mobile, Alabama, bound for Washington, D.C.—leaving the comfort of the Convent of Mercy far behind.
By Sister Patricia McCann, RSM — It is time to go back to the use of the word ignorant in our Mercy vocabulary. Catherine McAuley committed us to service among “the poor, sick and ignorant.” In recent years we changed wording to uneducated in many of our documents and in daily usage. Thinking of the vast network of Mercy educational institutions, we thought uneducated seemed more inclusive and less pejorative. And in that limited context it probably is. In contemporary times, though, we are discovering a new urgency about denouncing ignorance.
By Sister Suzanne Gallagher — “Lord, make me a channel of your peace.” These words from the “Prayer of St. Francis” are familiar to many of us. They beg the question, “How can we be channels of God’s peace in a world where so much violence surrounds us?”
Each year, Mercy students are invited to enter the Social Justice Video Contest and put their creative ideas and skills to work by sharing stories of the Sisters of Mercy’s Critical Concerns. The Grand Prize Winner receives $500.
Addyson Fleming, Miriam Lemailloux, Elliana Grabon, and Isabella Chiappa
“Mercy Over Materialism”
Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School, Lower Gwynedd, PA
Jaylyn Remolona and Mayra Alvarez
“Sacrifice for Family”
Mercy High School, Burlingame, California
Emma Lemieux, Maggie Misbach, Abigail Gomes, Katherine Grelotti and Georgia Baldini
“Are you with us?”
Mercy High School, Middletown, Connecticut
Amer Hasan Macarambon, Allyza Jane Dangga, Rianna Ysabella Dollete, Krizyl Baguhin, Susan Gayle Andales, Sittie Nihaya Umba, Fatima Rose Rivera, Atheel Villaganas, Abby Kim Suan
“Racism”
Holy Cross High School, Mindanao, Philippines
Rineyri Cáceres, Isaac Blanco, Liam Schultz
“Bandera del amor”
Instituto María Regina, La Ceiba,
Honduras
Ava Kolp, Katelyn McGuire, Jamie O’Donnell
“Together We Can End Gun Violence”
Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania
Grace de Klerk
“What is Justice?”
Mercy High School Farmington Hills
Shannon Talley, Maggie Baker, Alivia Chieffo
“Stop the Violence“
Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania
Gracie Gavin, Maxine Schaffner
“Welcome to the Gun Zone”
Mercy High School Burlingame
California
Ana Sophia Butkus
“Life Is Not A Game”
Mercy High School, Middletown, Connecticut
Meena Balaratna, Elizabeth Romano and Kristen Yezzi
“Protect our Earth”
Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School
Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania
Tristen Hasson, Melanie McGill, & Sydney Pasceri
“Women Make Mercy Real”
Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School
Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania
The 2020 contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Grace Wettengel, Morgan Lee, Michelle Delgado & Nina Bennett
Injustices in India’s Villages
College of St. Mary
Omaha, Nebraska
Alyssa Dela Cruz
Make Mercy Real
Academy of Our Lady of Guam
Hagatna, Guam
Kenzie Uhr
Change the Narrative
Mount St. Mary Catholic High School
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA