The Catholic Spirit congratulates the following members of women’s and men’s religious communities who are serving in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and are celebrating jubilees this year. The information is provided by the archdiocese.
Women Religious
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dubuque, Iowa
50 years
Sister Barbara Brooks
Sister Frances Donnelly
Contemplatives of the Good Shepherd, St. Paul
60 years
Sister Ann Joseph Dye
Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Joseph
75 years
Sister Marie Antoinette Chouinard
Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Paul
80 years
Sister Monica DuCharme
70 years
Sister Eileen Breault
Sister Patricia DeMoully
Sister Betty Gits
Sister Marie Grossman
Sister Dorothy Jorgenson
Sister Mary Virginia Micka
Sister Mary Charlene O’Keeffe
60 years
Sister Marie Theresa Belanger
Sister Anna Marie DeVos
Sister Mary Hasbrouck
Sister Ansgar Holmberg
Sister Bernadette Newton
Sister Carol Podlasek
Sister Lucy Knoll
Sister Marian Walstrom
Sister Virginia Webb
50 years
Sister Mary Frances Allen
Sister Margaret Brown
Sister Ann Diehl
Sister Connie Gleason
Sister Karen Hilgers
Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Paul
25 years
Sister Dorothy Struzinski
Dominican Sisters, Sinsinawa, Wis.
60 years
Sister Catherine Thomas Dwyer
Sister Martha Wiegand
50 years
Sister Elaine LaCanne
40 years
Sister Judith Jewison
Benedictine Sisters, St. Joseph
60 years
Sister Michon Lanners
Sister Cynthia Schmit
Benedictine Sisters, St. Paul
75 years
Sister Bertha Karels
60 years
Sister Susan Bourauel
Sister Monica Raway
Franciscan Sisters, Little Falls
60 years
Sister Rita Kuhl
Franciscan Sisters, Rochester
50 years
Sister Jan Halbach
Franciscan Sisters, Sylvania, Ohio
60 years
Sister M. Clarinda Coffel
Servite Sisters, Ladysmith, Wis.
75 years
Sister Mary Catherine Izral
Sisters of the Living Word
60 years
Sister Mary Nicholas Eiden
School Sisters of Notre Dame, St. Louis, Mo.
60 years
Sister Anne Becker
Sister Mary Butzer
Sister Veronica Horvat
Sister Paulissa Jirik
Sister Edna Lanners
Sister Mary Gen Olin
Sister Paul Therese Saiko
Visitation Nuns, Mendota Heights
50 years
Sister Brigid Marie Keefe
Visitation Nuns, Minneapolis
60 years
Sister Mary Margaret McKenzie
Sister Mary Virginia Schmidt
Men Religious
Christian Brothers, Burr Ridge, Ill.
80 years
Brother Basil Rothweiler
Franciscan Friars Minor, St. Louis, Mo.
50 years
Father Eugene Michel (ordination)
Conventual Franciscans, Mount St. Francis, Ind.
50 years
Father Jim Van Dorn (vows)
Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Washington, D.C.
70 years
Father Aloysius Svobodny (vows; 65 years ordination)
60 years
Father James J. Pillar (ordination)
50 years
Father Harry Winter (ordination)
Dominicans, Chicago, Ill.
50 years
Father Joseph Gillespie (vows)
Benedictines – St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville
50 years
Father Bernardine Ness (ordination)
Jesuits, Wisconsin Province
60 years
Father Edward Sthokal (ordination)
50 years
Father Leon Klimczyk (vows)
40 years
Father Patrick McCorkell (ordination)
25 years
Father Charles Sim Teck Kim (vows)
Society of Mary, Marists, Atlanta, Ga.
40 years
Father Joseph Hurtuk (ordination)
