The Catholic Spirit congratulates the following members of women’s and men’s religious communities who are serving or have served in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and are celebrating jubilees this year. The information is provided by the religious orders and from the archdiocese’s annual Mass for World Day for Consecrated Life.
Benedictine Sisters of St. Paul’s Monastery
70 years
Sister Rosella Schommer
25 years
Sister Linda Soler
Congregation of St. Joseph
60 years
Sister Anita Germain
De La Salle Christian Brothers
60 years
Brother Jerome Cox
Franciscan Brothers of Peace
25 years
Brother John Mary Kaspari
Brother Pio King
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls
60 years
Sister Noreen Bentfield
Sister Karen Niedzielski
Sister Kay Watts
Sister Janice Welle
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
60 years
Sister Marcella Anibas
Franciscan Sisters of St. Paul
50 years
Sister Mary Louise Dolezal
Little Sisters of the Poor
60 years
Sister Lucille Botz
50 years
Sister Mary Alphonsus Curtayne
Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver
25 years
Sister Fatima Tuaau
Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary
50 years
Sister Jennifer Rausch
School Sisters of Notre Dame
60 years
Sister Margaret Buresh
Sister Alice Druffel
Sister Rita Jirik
Sister Paulette Pass
Sister Helen Marie Plourde
Sister Jane Thibault
Sister Pauline Zweber
50 years
Sister Mary Susan Berg
Sister Lynore Girmscheid
Sister Esther Wagner
School Sisters of St. Francis
70 years
Sister Dorothy Ann Barloon
Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters
75 years
Sister Marie Kevin Claybaugh
Sister Gloria Higgins
Sister Dorothy Wreisner
70 years
Sister Margaret Muellenmeister
60 years
Sister Rita Rae Burger
Sister Patricia Dillon
Sister Margaret “Peggy” Marrin
Sister Doris Rauenhorst
Sister Theresa Thomas
Sister Elizabeth Toohey
50 years
Sister Carol Bongaarts
Sister Carolyn Croft
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
50 years
Sister Susan Coler
Sisters of St. Francis of Rochester
25 years
Sister Wanda Mettes
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
75 years
Sister Anne Grady
Sister Helen Janssen
Sister Grace Saumur
Sister Eunice Tussing
Sister Karen Wadsworth (died June 19)
70 years
Sister Agatha Grossman
Sister Jane Hurley
Sister Agnes Iten
Sister Ann William Leach
Sister Rita McDonald
Sister Grace McKigney
Sister Jane Svobodny
65 years
Sister Frances Mary Benz
Sister Elaine Conrad
Sister Kathleen Holmberg
Sister Mary O’Brien
Sister Jean Rooney
Sister Helena Sheridan
Sister Florence Steichen
60 years
Sister Jan Dalsin
Sister Agnes Foley
Sister Mary Clare Korb
Sister Judith Madigan
Sister Ann O’Neill
Sister Marie Herbert Seiter
40 years
Sister Chris Ludwig
Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order Franciscans
60 years
Sister Lucy Bruskiewicz
Visitation Sisters, Visitation Monastery of Minneapolis
50 years
Sister Karen Mohan