A Prayer to Transform Hearts

Please join the Cincinnati Ursulines and the Ursuline family throughout the U.S.  in prayer for conversion of the hearts of all oppressors everywhere, especially for those who deny women and girls access to education.  We offer the prayer posted here for your consideration.  A Prayer to Transform HeartsLoving God, as

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Repair Our Democracy

As members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, we Cincinnati Ursulines stand with the other more than 1300 leaders of Catholic sisters nationwide as we make this statement: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) joins with the world in praying for peace after witnessing the violence and lawlessness

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LCWR Welcomes SCOTUS Decision on DACA

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is grateful that the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The Court’s ruling safeguards the right of 700,000 DACA recipients to live and work in the country that is their home. This is an enormous

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LCWR Condemns Killing of George Floyd

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious strongly condemns the police-killing of another black man on the streets of our nation. Our hearts are breaking as we mourn with the family and friends of George Floyd and with all who have lost loved ones to law enforcement violence, all who live

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LCWR Troubled by US Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement

  The Ursulines of Cincinnati endorse the recent statement by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, opposing the current Administration’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.  The November, 2019 report by the World Meteorological Organization that greenhouse gases have reached a new record high calls us all to do more,

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