Category: Faith & Justice Workers

Update from Emma…

Our Justice Ministry team met with Tom Ulrich at the Ignatian Family “Teach in for Justice” hosted in Washington, D.C.

Tom(pictured in blue shirt & glasses below), a veteran of social justice ministry, has over 40 years of professional experience in assisting faith communities and national organizations develop their social justice ministry efforts.

Sophie Kloppenburg shares the news of the 1878 Memorial Initiative.

Update from Faith Warrior – Emma

Hello Everyone!

We’ve officially wrapped up the semester which is wild! Its gone by so fast but it truly was such a good semester! We had a senior night where senior students asked questions to Laker Catholic alumni about living their Faith post-college.

Meet Sophie

Father Jim Sauer and Rich Couture worked together after the dedication in October 2022 memorializing a lynching of 7 African American men in 1878 on the courthouse lawn in Mt. Vernon to recognize the young woman who got it started. 

80% of the people who leave the Catholic faith do so by the age of 23. This is a statistic that Emma Hoffman, a 22 year-old parishioner of Resurrection and graduate of Mater Dei and Indiana University has witnessed first-hand.

Jerome Echele

Jerome was honored at the CAJE Celebration in June 2022 for immersing himself in CAJE activities from facilitating house meetings, attending research activities and training opportunities locally and nationally.

He guided his Network of CAJE Network members to participate in public meeting with City and County Council members and to show up for the Rally,

All Saints Parish hires Brenda Meyer to lead our Justice Ministry Programs

When Brenda Meyer, retired after a 44-year career as a mental health provider, was approached about the All Saints Parish Justice Minister position, she responded that it should be a “justice saint”,