The Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland in collaboration with John Carroll University, Notre Dame College, Ursuline College, COAR(Community Oscar Arnulfo Romero), and the Interreligious Task Force on Central America (IRTF) ask us to join with them on December 2, 2015 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the martyrdom of the four churchwomen–Maura Clarke, MM; Ita Ford, […]
El Salvador churchwomen martyred
It was a night like any other in San Salvador in 1980. The Cleveland mission team working in LaLibertad was well aware of the dangers involved in staying in the war-torn county. Lay missionary Jean Donovan knew particularly well the danger she was in. A few weeks earlier she wrote to her friend: “The Peace Corps […]
Notre Dame Sister Kathleen Ryan is the Director of the Diocese of Cleveland Social Action Office. She is responsible for creating and implementing programs and pursuing legislative advocacy for peace, social and economic justice. She is beginning her 25th year at Catholic Charities and the diocese after a nineteen year teaching career. She recently was named Coordinator of the Sisters of Norte Dame, Chardon, OH, Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation Committee. 
The Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio, belong to an international congregation of more than two thousand apostolic women religious. We are one in mind and one in heart for the transformation of the world in Christ. 