Heal Our World Introduction   Violence – in all its vicious forms we have experienced and that has been inflicted upon us -  is one of the hardest realities we have to live with, to forgive, and to somehow absorb.  We only need to look at our own contemporary histories to find this violence in endless experiences: wars, occupations, random mass killings, school shootings, hating others and seeking to exterminate their enemies whom they see as different from them, slow starvation, and we could...

SISTER Alma Bill, OLVM, age 104, a resident of Heritage Pointe of Warren, died on the afternoon of Friday, January 30, 2026. Sister Alma entered the Congregation of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters on October 30, 1947, and made first vows on August 5, 1950. She served in the missions in California, Florida, Missouri, Arizona, and Indiana. Sister returned to Victory Noll in June of 2010 to volunteer in various ways. Sister Alma was born in Arcadia, Wisconsin on March 24, 1921, to Joseph...

Celebrating St. Josephine Bakhita of Sudan, patroness of human trafficking survivors   Introduction :  Bakhita was born in southern Sudan in 1869. As a young girl, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Sold and resold in the markets of El Obeid and Karthoum, she was treated brutally by her captors. In 1883, she was bought by an Italian diplomat who sent her to Italy to work as a maid for the daughter of a friend studying with the Canossian Daughters of Charity. It was there that Bakhita...