We are the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a vowed religious community of Roman Catholic women who were founded in 1834 as a teaching order by the Italian, St. Maria De Mattias, in the small town of Acuto, Italy. Worldwide, we are nearly 1,000 women strong, including 140 in the U.S.
We are the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a vowed religious community of Roman Catholic women who were founded in 1834 as a teaching order by the Italian, St. Maria De Mattias, in the small town of Acuto, Italy. Worldwide, we are nearly 1,000 women strong, including 140 in the U.S.
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, U.S. Region, who are embroiled in a federal lawsuit over the exercise of their right to religious freedom,… Read More »Palm Sunday Service to Mark Adorers’ Struggle to Protect Land
Put it in the history books. Today we return to Liberia. After a lapse of 25 years, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ officially… Read More »Today, We Return to Liberia
By Sister Janis Yaekel, ASC I am Sister Janis Yaekel, ASC and I have pancreatic cancer. In fact, I have lived with cancer since 2012.… Read More »More Faith Than Ever? Not Sure
(On Jan. 19, 2018, our attorney, Dwight Yoder, argued before a three-judge panel in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia in our… Read More »‘A Light on the Hill’: The Adorers’ Statement in Religious Freedom Case
Lawyers for the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, U.S. Region, a congregation of Catholic Sisters, will argue their case at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan.… Read More »U.S. Court of Appeals Panel Will Hear Oral Arguments in Religious Freedom Case the Adorers Filed Against Pipeline Company and FERC
By Sister Janis Yaekel, ASC I am Sister Janis Yaekel, ASC and I have pancreatic cancer. In fact, I have lived with cancer since 2012.… Read More »A New Year Ushers a Letting Go
Sister Helen Ridder died Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. She was 82 years old and had been an Adorer of the Blood of Christ for 64… Read More »Sister Helen Ridder
By Sister Barb Smith, ASC Journeys always stir something deep within me. There is something exciting about taking off into the unknown. Where will this… Read More »The Road to My Wildest Dreams
The Adorers are extremely pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit temporarily halted all construction activity by Transco… Read More »Press Release: Halted Construction on the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
Saturday, October 21 was crisp and overcast as I drove on the parking lot at our Center in Ruma, IL. Several loyal, dedicated co-workers were… Read More »We Celebrate, We Remember, We Live Their Legacies
Sister Teresita Kern, ASC, died Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, at the Ruma Center, Ruma, Ill. She was 93 and had been a professed member of… Read More »Sister Teresita Kern
Sister Margaret Mary Smith, who had celebrated 65 years as a vowed member of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ this spring, died Monday,… Read More »Sister Margaret Mary Smith