Today is a holy day of remembrance.  Many days we remember these women, but today we do it with the Church in a formal way.… Read More »In Honor of Those We’ve Lost

By Sister Barbara Jean Franklin, ASC We learned last week that the talented St. Louis-area sculptor Rudolph “Rudy” Torrini died Wednesday, Sept. 5. He was… Read More »Farewell, Rudy

Saturday, October 21 was crisp and overcast as I drove on the parking lot at our Center in Ruma, Illinois.  Several loyal, dedicated co-workers were… Read More »We Celebrate, We Remember, We Live Their Legacies

By Cheryl Wittenauer We go in twos to try to understand the impact of the five. Two Adorers, two ASC Associates and two Newman University… Read More »Back to Liberia

As busy as they were, and as tense as things were during Liberia’s civil war, the Adorer missionaries in that West African coastal country corresponded… Read More »Letters from Liberia

Diane Shirley Kolmer so loved and admired her “soul-mate aunt,” Sister Shirley Kolmer, that she adopted the legal middle name, “Shirley,” when her aunt and… Read More »Remembering a ‘Soul-Mate Aunt’

Today begins 12 days of remembering our missionary Sisters who died this month, 24 years ago in Liberia, during that African nation’s brutal civil war.… Read More »Our Missionary Sister Martyrs Remembered

On this day in 1992, two Adorers were killed by rebel forces on the road between Gardnersville and Barnersville, Liberia. They were two of five sisters… Read More »VIDEO: In remembrance of the Martyrs of Charity

It has been 22 years since ASC sisters were martyred during the Liberian Civil War. In honor, we revisit a reflection written by Sister Regina Siegfried,… Read More »Credible Witnesses: A Reflection on the ASC Liberia Martyrs