If you ever attended the Harvest Festival, you might recall the aroma of red cinnamon candy apples wafting through the Motherhouse. Or you likely couldn’t pass up the famous Cream Fudge sold at the annual Auxiliary Spring Luncheon. Click here to make a donation or buy raffle tickets to support this … [Read more...]

Arlene Costanza Sustar knows what brings smiles to the retired Sisters – friendly dogs and refreshing ice cream! So, why not send a Bruster’s ice cream truck to the Motherhouse on a sunny Sunday afternoon, mused Arlene, who is a volunteer with Pets with Heart, a pet therapy outreach of the … [Read more...]

In his 2015 Encyclical Laudato Si, “On Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis calls us to repent of our “sins against Creation” and the ways in which, as individuals and societies of the global family, our wastefulness, greed, and short-sightedness have degraded forests and wetlands, polluted air … [Read more...]

The “hidden voices” of our Sisters, along with those of our neighbors who lived through the development of the steel, coal and glass industries in Western Pennsylvania, will be preserved and made available to the public, thanks to a history grant awarded to the Congregation. The Historical and … [Read more...]

Though there has been an ongoing food insecurity problem in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to a significant increase. In western Pennsylvania, congregations of the Catholic Sisters Leadership Council join more than 80 congregations of Catholic Sisters across the country in … [Read more...]