LCWR Traveling Exhibit

The traveling exhibit "Women & Spirit, Catholic Sisters in America, has issued the following schedule for 2010-2011.

May 9 - August 28, 2010, Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Cleveland, Ohio.

September 24, 2010 - January 22, 2011, Statue of Liberty National Monument/Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Liberty Island, New York.

February - April 2011, Mississippi River Museum, Dubuque, Iowa.

Other sites are under consideration.

Go to www.womenandspirit.org for more information.

LCWR Receives Award at Peace Conference

At this year’s National Catholic Conference on Peacemaking, Pax Christi USA recognized the significant contributions of women religious by honoring the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) with the Eileen Egan Peacemaker Award. Marlene Weisenbeck, FSPA, president of LCWR, accepted the award. The award, first instituted in 2007, was presented to Marlene in Chicago at the closing plenary session of the national conference July 18.

“Everyone in Pax Christi USA knows and recognizes that women religious are the backbone of the Catholic peace and justice movement,” stated Dave Robinson, executive director of Pax Christi USA. “These strong, prophetic, and compassionate women are always on the frontlines where the weak and most vulnerable suffer at the hands of violent and unjust power. For everything these women do, from their visionary leadership to their personal integrity, we felt this moment to be the opportune time to honor them.”

The Eileen Egan Peacemaker Award is bestowed periodically to honor a group or individual who has made a strong and extraordinary prophetic witness for peace in a time or situation of devastating violence or injustice. The award is named for Eileen Egan, one of the co-founders of Pax Christi USA, a long-time executive with Catholic Relief Services and friend to both Dorothy Day and Mother Theresa.

“Women religious have been our teachers, our guides, our mentors, and our conscience. They have called us to be a people committed to living lives fashioned by the heart of the gospel which Jesus proclaimed,” stated Bishop Babino Zavala, Bishop-President of Pax Christi USA. “For the dedication to peace and justice which they have shown in our Church and to the world, Pax Christi USA recognizes