Sister Roberta Brich
The connection with the land and rural people has contributed to the sisters' distinguishing characteristics of simplicity and steadfastness in the face of major challenges.
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Sister Jude Fitzpatrick
Sr. Jude currently serves as director of administrative and special services for the Diocese of Des Moines.
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Sister Kathryn O'Meara
After teaching for several years Sr. Kathryn entered the health field. As an RN she worked in the medical nursing unit of St. Joseph Hospital, Ottumwa, IA, for several years before becoming a part of Project Hope, a land-based medical team that ministered in Tunis and Tunisia, Africa. She then entered the National Health Service Corps which let her minister as a family nurse practitioner to Native Americans through the Navajo Nation Health Foundation.
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Sister Johnelle Howanach
Sr. Johnelle Howanach found herself, in 1988, the foster mother of a 6-year old Native American girl disabled from birth with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Although, told that the child was uneducable, Sr. Johnelle’s tutelage and love has allowed ‘Lissie” to grow into a confident young woman, founder of a Lissie's Luv Yums and national speaker on Fetal Alchohol Spectrum Disorder.
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Sister Catherine Talarico
Sr. Catherine's ministries included teaching, a pastoral minister, and working with housing and mental health issues. Currently she lives in Des Moines where she volunteers for homeless veterans and women at Iowa Correctional Institution for Women as well as involvement with other justice issues.
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Sister Molly Munoz
Sister Molly has been working in Hispanic pastoral ministry with migrant workers since 1993. She is known in Colorado as the "Mother Teresa of the Latinos," traveling hundreds of miles per month, working seven days a week, attending to the migrants' physical, spiritual and emotional needs
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Sister Irene Munoz
God was manifested to me in so many ways by the faces and actions of the people I served...I was the one being evangelized!
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Sister Marian Smith
While Sr. Marian, an only child, was in the novitiate, her father died, leaving her mother a young widow. After teaching in parochial schools for many years, in 1975 Sr. Marian was offered a position in the Fulton Illinois public school system, about 20 miles from Erie.
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Sister Joann Kuebrich
I felt the pull to continue in the footsteps of Marilyn. In so doing I, along with other members of the CHM community, are assuring that the legacy of our congregation lives on in the neighborhood....
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Sister Johanna Rickl
The gentle hum of 500 indigenous voices locks me into a oneness that is overpowering...The holiness was palpable at that outdoor Holy Thursday liturgy in the highlands of Mexico...
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Sister Delphine Vasquez
From a sparked interest in some caterpillar eggs to creating a nursery and sanctuary for monarch butterflies, a passion for helping the earth takes flight!...
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Sister Mary Ann Vogel
There was much activity in the housing industry in the late 1980s. The goal was to end homelessness in ten years. Many religious communities were moving from education and health care and getting involved with housing for the homeless.
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Sister Caridad Inda
This proved a blessing as my mentor was Dr. Brady Tyson, a friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, and others in the forefront of the movement for nonviolent action for liberation that energized the march on Selma and other actions.
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Sister Penelope Wink
"The work of the psychologist is to help the human conscience have a greater understanding of its personal and social identity. An overwhelming reality of our social identity in Chiapas is poverty. Our guide is an ethic of liberation, confronting human suffering, a result of inequity; opening roads to happiness."
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Sister Marilyn Berger, PhD
My work, as a Sister of Humility, reflects the work of the entire CHM congregation. In the movie, "House of Brede," a particular sister was going out to serve and was asked how she could possibly leave Brede. She said, "I am not leaving Brede. I AM Brede." Wherever I go, I do believe, there go the Sisters of Humility.
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