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September 27, 2024, Winter Park, Florida – Members of the Haiti Ministry at St. Mary Margaret Catholic Parish in Winter Park, Florida, wrote a letter to the editor of The Orlando Sentinel and The Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun. In the letter, the committee notes their involvement for 18 years in partnership with parishes in Haiti, uplifting and empowering their communities. Noting that their brothers and sisters in Haiti “deserve our respect,” the committee writes, “It is heartbreaking to witness the recent attacks on the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, which were fueled by false claims and baseless accusations about their legal status.”

Sister Rosemary Finnegan, OP, (pictured above) is a long-time member of the parish’s Haitian Ministry.

Read the letter to the editor in The Orlando Sentinel 
 

September 6, 2024, New Orleans, Louisiana – Six students at Xavier University’s Institute for Black Catholic Studies (IBCS) were named inaugural recipients of the newly endowed Sister Jamie T. Phelps, OP, PhD, Scholarship. The scholarship was named after Sister Jamie, an Adrian Dominican Sister and who was an inaugural member of the IBCS and its long-time director.

Receiving the 2024 scholarships are Ali Mumbach, Alicia Gray, April Williams-Bell, Shaylyn Cothron, Rahsaan Garlin, and Pattie J. Griffin.

Read more here about the scholarship recipients and Sister Jamie’s role in the IBCS. 
 

Caption for above photo: Sister Jamie Phelps, OP, speaks at the commencement for the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University, New Orleans, in August 2023.