On Nov. 10, 2022, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., presented Dr. Ansel Augustine (MPS) with the ARTIE Award for Literature. The award recognizes Ansel’s latest book, Leveling the Praying Field: Can the Church we Love, Love Us Back?, which received a Pulitzer Prize Nomination for general nonfiction.
Alumna Sr. Erin McDonald, CSJ, MPS, is excited about the November 2022 launch of her podcast Beyond the Habit, which she co-hosts with fellow Sister of St Joseph Colleen Gibson, SSJ. Beyond the Habit invites listeners to move beyond everyday assumptions of what it means to be Catholic, find common ground, and create unity by talking with special guests about real life issues. Sister Erin studied at LIM through a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation titled Communicating Charism.
On November 10, 2022, Sarah Demarais was a guest on Catholic Community Radio's Wake Up! Thursday program. CCR producer Gaby Smith Shinskie interviewed Sarah to learn more about "Flourishing Sisterhood: Nourishing Communities in the Gulf South," a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
In October 2022, The Clarion Herald featured an article about "Flourishing Sisterhood: Nourishing Communities in the Gulf South," a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. In the article, LIM's grant manager for Hilton-funded projects, Sarah DeMarais, spoke about the grant's focus on supporting the well-being of sisters in the Gulf South through learning and spiritual formation opportunities.
On Nov. 9, 2022, LIM graduate Stacy Wells, M.R.E., (second from left) was among the faculty, administrators, and students who welcomed Fr. Greg Boyle to the campus of Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego, California, where she is Dean of Mission and Ministry. Fr. Boyle came to speak to the students about Homeboy Industries, the ministry he founded in 1988 to help former gang members in East Los Angeles to improve their lives. He was accompanied by two members of the organization who also spoke to the teens. The campus comunity shared a liturgy celebrated by Fr. Boyle.
On October 26, 2022, Professor Emerita Kathleen O’Gorman, Ed.D., delivered a moving presentation for Rayne Methodist Church in New Orleans entitled “Remembering We Are Not Alone.” She began in honor of her mentor, Thomas Berry, C.P., by asking the group and responding to the question that guides her in all things: What time is it? Where are we in this time and place, and what are we called to respond to or reflect more deeply on? In her presnetation, Dr. O'Gorman brought forth the wisdom of our ancestors who were guided, sustained, and who lived by the sun.
Emily Jendzejec, Ph.D., celebrates the publication of her essay "Priesthood as Discipleship for Mission" in the recent volume A Possible Priesthood: Horizons of Hope (Orbis Books 2022). This collection of essays, rooted in church tradition and responsive to Vatican II, includes its authors' hopes for the future of the priesthood.
Dr. Tracey Lamont was recently interviewed by Christy Cabaniss and Sarah Jarzembowski of the Catholic Leadership Network for a podcast about missionary discipleship. In the podcast, Dr. Lamont defines missionary discipleship and shares her ideas of how to build trust among community members and leaders in order to encourage missionary discipleship. View the podcast»
Graduates of LIM's Spanish-language program received the Certificado de Educación Continua en Teología y Ministerio. The twelve students, pictured above with their facilitator Danna Johnson, received LIM's Kairos Award at the May 2022 College of Nursing and Health Awards ceremony. The Kairos Award is given collectively to a LIM or LIM Extension classes that has demonstrated LIM's core values of academic excellence and collaboration for ministry.
Ursuline Academy student Natalie Garner attended the FaithActs Summer Youth Theology Institute in June of 2022. Her experiences there prompted her to write an article which was published in the Clarion Herald, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. In it, she explains how the presentations she attended and activities she participated in allowed her to connect her Catholic faith's teaching on creation to her spirituality and her actions in the world. Read the article»