Adorers Elect New Leadership Team
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ have elected a new five-member U.S. Regional Leadership Team, who will assume office for a six-year term in… Read More »Adorers Elect New Leadership Team
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 have elected a new five-member U.S. Regional Leadership Team, who will assume office for a six-year term in… Read More »Adorers Elect New Leadership Team
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, U.S. Region, an order of Catholic sisters with regional offices in St. Louis, will mark the one-year anniversary… Read More »Adorers Mark 1-Year Anniversary of Chapel and Lawsuit
We, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, U.S. Region, have been appalled, dismayed and disheartened by our government’s new policy of family separation of… Read More »Adorers on New U.S. Policy on Family Separation
By Sister Sue Andrew, ASC For the last 14 years, I’ve worked at Visitation Catholic School in Kansas City, Missouri, as a licensed clinical social… Read More »The Adventures of Sister Sue and Buddy the Therapy Dog
Sister Janis Yaekel, ASC, died May 12, 2018 at the Ruma Center. She was 66 years old and had been a professed Adorer of the… Read More »Sister Janis Yaekel
Sister Mary Anthony Mathews, ASC, a longtime educator and missionary in China, died Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at the Ruma Center, Ruma, Illinois. She was… Read More »Sister Mary Anthony Mathews
Sister Marciana Heimann, ASC, died Friday, April 20, 2018 at the Ruma Center in Ruma, Ill. She was born on March 1, 1928, the second… Read More »Sister Marciana Heimann
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
The ASC Family is a community of Adorers of the Blood of Christ Religious Sisters and those inspired by our values and spirituality. The Adorers were founded by St. Maria de Mattias in Italy and came to the United States in 1870. Today, we work for justice, peace, and love for our dear neighbor all over the world.
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