Statements

All Statements of the Sisters of Saint Joseph from 2015 to present. The following Direction Statements are from 2019.

2023

SSJ Statement St. Hubert High school

Statement on the murder of Tyre Nichols – January 31, 2023

Statement on the Fire at Our Mother of Consolation School

2022

SSJ Statement on Mass Shootings in Buffalo, New York and Laguna Woods, California

2021

SSJ Statement on the violence at the U.S. Capitol – January 6, 2021

2020

Statement on the Police Shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.

Statement in Response to the Shooting of Jacob Blake

Statement on the Slaying of Sister Paula Merrill, SCN and Sister Margaret Held, SSSF in Mississippi – August 25, 2016

Statement in Response to the Call for Justice

2019

Leadership Team’s Statement Supporting the Recent LCWR Letter to President Trump

Leadership Team’s Statement on Recent U.S. Mass Shootings

The Leadership Team’s Statement to address the inhumane treatment of immigrant and refugee families

Statement on Children Held at the US Southern Border

Response to Addressing President Trump’s Declaration of a National Emergency on our Southern Border

2018

Leadership Team’s Response to U.S. Immigration Policy that Separates Families at the Border

Leadership Team’s Response to U.S. Administration’s Decision to Rescind TPS for Slavadorans

Leadership Team’s Response to U.S. Administration’s Decision to Rescind TPS for Hondurans

Leadership Team’s Statement in Support of Dreamers

Sisters of Saint Joseph Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia’s Response to the Mass Shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA

Response to U.S. Administration’s Proposed Plans for the Central American Migrant Caravan

2017

Leadership Team’s Statement in Support of Dreamers

Leadership Team’s Statement Regarding the Deadly Attack in Charlottesville, VA

We Stand With the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops and agree with their statements regarding the Executive Order, dated January 27, 2017 titled, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”:

2016

Post Election Prayer 2016

Election Prayer 2016

Statement on the Slaying of Sister Paula Merrill, SCN and Sister Margaret Held, SSSF in Mississippi – August 25, 2016

Statement on Orlando Nightclub Shooting – June 12, 2016

2015

Statement on Syrian Refugees – November 25, 2015