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Victory Noll Sisters join effort to shine spotlight on sex trafficking during Super Bowl
Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters are part of a group of 11 orders of Catholic women religious in Indiana and Michigan who invests in hotel chains to affect social change is collaborating with state and local officials to curb human trafficking during festivities leading up to the February 5 Super Bowl in Indianapolis. Incidents of human trafficking—or modern-day slavery—tend to spike alongside major sporting events like the Olympics, the World Cup and the Super Bowl to meet the high demand for commercial sex.
The U.S. State Department estimates that between 14,500 and 18,000 persons—many of them women and children—are trafficked into the country each year. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center reported that over 11,800 calls were made to its hotline regarding sex trafficking in 2010, including calls from the state of Indiana.
"No one wants human trafficking in their town," said Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Ann Oestreich, who is coordinating the Super Bowl 2012 Anti-Trafficking Initiative for the Coalition for Corporate Responsibility for Indiana and Michigan (CCRIM). "These activities happen in the dark. What we are attempting to do is to shine a light on sex trafficking and reduce opportunities for it to happen."
Sister Lorraine Masters is a member of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters in Huntington, Ind. She is the author of the book, "Blessings of the Four Winds," which explores her experiences as a catechist within Native American communities, and also with an examination of Native American spirituality.
In a recent statement in Newsweek magazine was the line, "Perhaps the biggest unqualified winner of 2011 is a 24-year-old virgin." A name was not mentioned, but for Native Americans and many others that virgin can only be Kateri Tekakwitha, the "Lily of the Mohawks."
The year of 2011 will be remembered as the year that the long-awaited miracle that would fulfill the requirements for her canonization was recorded. Soon we can call her Saint Kateri, instead of Blessed. I treasure my wooden statue of Kateri that was carved for me by our OLVM Sister Mary Joan Ginsterblum.
We invite you to join us in building a Missioner community of social justice and peace that extends the work of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters in an innovative, non-traditional way. The Missioner program is a transitional program of 1 to 3 years for creative Catholic women 22 years and older. They will live the same simple, celibate lifestyle as the Sisters during the time of their commitment. It is a new opportunity for ministry dedicated to living and promoting the social teaching of the Church.
It is a new way to seek a deeper spiritual life and relationship with God. It is an opportunity to share in the spirit and Mission of the Victory Noll Sisters.
Our Lady of Victory Missonary Sisters is an American Missionary Congregation founded in 1922 — serving the poor and oppressed in a personal, non-institutional way
+ Proclaiming the Gospel + Working for Justice + Empowering the Laity
We want to minister to the culturally diverse Catholic population of this country, proclaiming Jesus Christ through evangelization, education and/or Christian formation. We would like to offer a solid Catholic teaching and ministries that speak to the needs of the faith communities, empowering the Laity, dedicating our prayer and ministry to the proclamation of God's Kingdom.
That is why we have become part of a network of religious communities collaborating to assist home mission dioceses in their efforts to develop lay leadership and ministry. This is an initiative of the Home Missions Leadership Conference and the Congar Institute for Ministry Development. READ MORE
In a recent statement in Newsweek magazine was the line, "Perhaps the biggest unqualified winner of 2011 is a 24-year-old virgin." A name was not mentioned, but for Native Americans and many others that virgin can only be Kateri Tekakwitha, the "Lily of the Mohawks."
They will live the same simple, celibate lifestyle as the Sisters during the time of their commitment. It is a new opportunity for ministry dedicated to living and promoting the social teaching of the Church. 
