Sunday, May 3, 2020

Tales Of The New Crown: Before Lebensborn, There Was Gerrymandering - The Continuing Saga Of The Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution - The Plantations Of Catholic Charities

After Emancipation Proclamation, the plantations renamed as children's charities to snatch and sell kids from the Secret Society of Gerry, gerrymandering, now known as CPS.

The nuns were German Nazis doing Lebensborn because not all Paper Clippers were men.

It seems there is an active border baby operation.

Buying and selling tiny humans of The Poors is legal and built this christian nation.

These are the places, when a little girl got knocked up, that birthed and snatched the babies to put them up for adoption or sale.

Baby plantations.

The United States has demonized women, or young girls who were raped and impregnated, as floozies, sluts, whores, when they are just victims of a christian hierarchic society, under chattel law, where children were, and still are, to be seen, and not heard, because it is the industry which built this great nation.

Some may readily understand this to be forced adoptions.

Think about this because as it all still goes on today, deeply woven into our economies.

Remember, a child can only be emancipated upon the proper age of a juridic person.

After Decades of Service, Five Nuns Die as Virus Sweeps Through Convent


https://www.sssf.org/SSSF/Get-To-Know-Us/History.htm

The coronavirus outbreak was difficult to trace in the Wisconsin convent, which specializes in care for aging nuns with dementia.

CHICAGO — Our Lady of the Angels Convent was designed as a haven of peace and prayer in a suburb of Milwaukee, a place where aging, frail nuns could rest after spending their lives taking care of others.

Songbirds chirped in the sitting area. A courtyard invited morning prayers and strolls for the several dozen nuns who lived in the facility, a low-slung cream-colored building with a turret.

The quiet convent has become the site of a deadly cluster of the coronavirus. Four staff members have tested positive, a health official said. Since April 6, five nuns have died from the virus.

Covid-19, difficult to contain in any circumstance, has spread within Our Lady of the Angels with a particular invisibility. All five nuns who died were only discovered to have the virus after their deaths.

Sister Marie June Skender.
Sister Mary Regine Collins
The women had moved into the convent after decades of service in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. They worked in parishes, schools and universities, teaching English and music, ministering to the aged and the poor and nurturing their own passions for literature and the fine arts. Our Lady of the Angels, which specializes in caring for people with dementia, was meant to be their final home.

IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE
Many workers in states that are reopening must wrestle with whether to risk their health or their livelihood.

Officials say that this week, as alarm has grown surrounding the outbreak in the convent, medical staff quickly increased testing, ensuring that every resident was tested for the coronavirus. Earlier in April, the facility had temporarily stopped testing nuns for the coronavirus, according to investigative reports by the Milwaukee County medical examiner.

Records show that administrators at the convent had reasoned that the process of testing the nuns, by inserting a long nasal swab through a nostril into the back of the throat, was too difficult for them to endure.

Sister Annelda Holtkamp.
Sister Marie June Skender
In early April, Sister Mary Regine Collins was several weeks away from her 96th birthday. She had retired to Our Lady of the Angels after a life filled with religious service and education, according to a biography provided by her ministry, the School Sisters of Notre Dame.

She taught in Catholic schools and at a university in Milwaukee; she earned a master’s degree in art at the University of Notre Dame in 1962 and was known for her wood carvings.

On April 3, she developed a mild cough. The next day she was short of breath. On April 6, she died.

The convent staff had attempted to test Ms. Collins for the virus, but she had dementia and was “too combative to tolerate” the process, an investigator’s report from the medical examiner’s office said.

“Staff is treating her death as if she had Covid,” the report said.

A post-mortem coronavirus test, conducted by the medical examiner’s office, came back positive.

There have been at least 6,854 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Wisconsin, according to a New York Times database, and as of Thursday, at least 316 people had died.

ENROLLMENTS PLUMMETAs high school seniors put off college, school administrators foresee steep financial losses.
Most of the deaths have occurred in Milwaukee County, the most populous county in the state. In March, local health officials hosted conference calls with administrators of nursing homes and long-term care facilities, warning them that their residents — in advanced age, with underlying medical conditions — would be especially vulnerable.

“The convent administrator and staff have been following, and continue to follow, all the guidelines and recommendations of the local health department, the facility’s infection control coordinator, and the sisters’ primary care physician,” said Michael O’Loughlin, a spokesman for the School Sisters of St. Francis, a co-sponsor of the convent.

“They are very aware that the convent’s residents, who are elderly and receive specialized memory care, are a vulnerable population, which is why the convent suspended all communal activities and enforced social distancing long before any of the residents tested positive for Covid-19.”

Darren Rausch, the director and health officer for the Greenfield Health Department, said Our Lady of the Angels was among the facilities in the small suburb of Milwaukee that had kept in close touch with his office.

Sister Mary Francele Sherburne.
Sister Annelda Holtkamp
From the beginning of the outbreak, the convent staff followed the advice of his department, he said. Isolate positive cases. Make sure staff members are wearing personal protective equipment. Monitor the temperatures and symptoms of residents.

“It’s definitely very challenging,” Mr. Rausch said, noting that it can be more difficult for medical staff to detect symptoms of the coronavirus in patients with dementia. “They can’t always vocalize what’s going on.”

Health officials say that monitoring for Covid-19 is especially crucial in a residential setting full of older, medically vulnerable patients; about one-fifth of coronavirus deaths in the United States have been linked to nursing facilities.

Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, which struggled with a widespread lack of tests in the early days of the outbreak, have significantly ramped up testing in recent weeks, even for residents who are asymptomatic.

Sister Bernadette Kelter.
Sister Mary Francele Sherburne.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has asked long-term care facilities with an outbreak to test residents who appear sick; the specimens can then be sent to a state lab for free Covid-19 testing.

Many people who undergo coronavirus tests using the most common method — swabbing through the nose — find the test uncomfortable or even painful. Other methods, using a sample of saliva that is spit into a vial, are being introduced in a small number of states but are not widely available yet.

Mr. O’Loughlin, a spokesman for the ministry, said that since testing at the convent resumed, all of the residents have now been tested, some multiple times.

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History
The School Sisters of St. Francis community was founded on April 28, 1874. Our sisters began their ministry in parish schools, responding to the call of the Church in the United States. Our ministries, past and present, are rooted in Christian and Franciscan values. Our community is alive with the call of the Gospel, uniting with others to build a just and peaceful world.

Called by God
FoundressesIn 1873, three young women—Emma Franziska (Mother Alexia) Hoell, Paulina (Mother Alfons) Schmid, and Helena (Sister Clara) Seiter—were called by God to establish a Franciscan religious community that would care for people in need. They left their ten-member community, ministering at an orphanage in Schwarzach, Germany, and sailed to America. They settled in New Cassel (now Campbellsport) Wisconsin. Their dream was to help immigrants with a large religious community that would meet the needs of the Church.

Rapid Growth
Mother AlexiaMany women joined the community in the next decade and by 1887, our sisters staffed schools in five states. A new motherhouse, St. Joseph Convent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was built and dedicated. St. Joseph's Normal School, which would grow to become Alverno College, was established within the motherhouse to educate the sisters. In 1893, the community expanded into health care ministry with the opening of Sacred Heart Sanitarium adjacent to the motherhouse. The sanitarium was the first of its kind in Milwaukee and became well known around the world.

Expansion in Europe
Mother Alexia returned to Europe in 1895, where she focused the community’s energies on ministry in sanitariums, kindergartens, homes for orphans and troubled youth, and homes for young women seeking higher education. Working mostly in Germany and Switzerland, sisters also conducted pastoral work and offered care to sick and elderly people.

Leadership in the Arts
Leadership in the ArtsUnder the leadership of Mother Alfons Schmid, a lover of the arts, the community established a strong tradition in music and art. The School Sisters of St. Francis have merited distinction as artists, composers, music educators and parish musicians, and have provided leadership in the field of liturgical music throughout the United States. The initiative of Mother Alfons in fostering the arts shaped a legacy that continues today.

New Institutions
Sharing Christ's mission through education, health care, social work and pastoral ministry became a central focus for our congregation. Under Mother Alfons' direction, the School Sisters opened these institutions:

Alvernia High School, Chicago
Madonna High School, Aurora, Illinois
St. Mary's Hill Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Seraphic Press and St. Joseph Convent Conservatory of Music, Milwaukee
New InstitutionsLater outreach efforts included these institutions, some still active, some now a part of our community’s legacy:

Alverno College, Milwaukee
Sacred Heart School of Practical Nursing, Milwaukee
Waupun Memorial Hospital, Waupun, Wisconsin
St. Joseph Academy, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Ryan High School, Omaha, Nebraska
Service in numerous multicultural parishes and neighborhoods
Global Outreach
Global OutreachIn the 1930s and following decades, the community’s vision became more international. Expansion included a school in China, two missions in India, several hospitals in Germany and an orphanage in Honduras.

A province developed in Latin America with missions in Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru and Mexico. It was named the Union of Latin American ULAF ProvinceFranciscans (ULAF). This province, now administered as a region of the congregation, emphasizes pastoral work, education, health care, ministry to indigenous people, and service in the Guatemalan orphanage founded by the community.

Two provinces in India, established in 1996 and 2000, each have attracted close to 100 sisters. There, the School Sisters of St. Francis serve the poorest of the poor, carrying out ministries in villages, dispensaries, schools and hostels for girls and women.

Congregational Renewal
Congregational RenewalThe events and direction of the Second Vatican Council mandated that religious congregations renew themselves and faithfully follow the charism of their founders. The School Sisters of St. Francis responded whole-heartedly. The Constitutions and Rule of Life were revised to become new Congregational Renewalministries and opportunities—developed in response to new needs in pastoral outreach, social justice, education and health care—reflected a more contemporary understanding of Gospel life and service.

The School Sisters of St. Francis today is firmly rooted in the Franciscan values of non-violence, mutuality, hospitality, and spirituality that balances activity and prayer. Associate Relationship gives lay women and men the opportunity to join the School Sisters of St. Francis in a common commitment to the Gospel and to carrying forward the mission of the Church.

Reconciling with the SSJ-TOSF
ssj-tosfAt the turn of the 19th century, a number of School Sisters of St. Francis were called to establish a new congregation that would become the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis. Based in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, SSJ-TOSF sisters serve in direct ministry to those in need throughout the United States and around the world. After years of prayerful discussion, a formal reconciliation between our communities was celebrated in 2013 as sisters with whom we are truly sisters!

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