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CSA Leadership Calls for Nonviolence, Action, & Prayer
April 09, 2026
Dear Sisters, Associates, Staff, and Friends,
In the face of our government threatening war crimes, genocide and erasure of an entire civilization, Pope Leo teaches us that we cannot remain silent. When things get to this point, we must be honest and clear-eyed about what is happening around us and to us. Systems are collapsing, and, as this is occurring, it becomes more and more impossible to ignore. We are surrounded by the horrors of war and domination. We can no longer explain it away or go along with it or try to believe that this is just how things are now.
We live challenged by the nonviolent life of Jesus as presented in the Gospels, by our Mission Statement wherein we write “we continue to respond in our own times to those whose faith life or human dignity is threatened,” and by our Statement on Nonviolence from 2002. To us, that means that we cannot allow ourselves to get used to this violent way of dealing with issues, this constant harming of our neighbors both local and global, this abuse of power and this greed that seem to be driving so much of human life in this time.
So, we resist. We speak out. We protest. We vote. We call and write to those who represent us even though so much is out of our control. We reach out to each other and tend to our relationships with fierce love, honest conversation, and deep connection. We call ourselves and each other to a certain steadiness that Vaclav Havel wrote about: hope is “not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” (Disturbing the Peace, 1986)
We cannot tire in this struggle. As our founder, Father Caspar Rehrl encouraged us: “Love must unite us beyond all difficulties.” (Constitutions, p. 20) So we call on all people of good will to join with us in this holy work of Gospel nonviolence and resistance in love. We invite all of you to gather at our Motherhouse (330 County Road K, Fond du Lac) one Sunday a month for a time of Quiet Contemplative Prayer for Peace. The next date is April 19, 2026, at 4 p.m. in our chapel. Come pray with us and firm up the relationships that make for an emerging network of love.
Let us follow Jesus, Prince of Peace, together.
Sisters Peg, Lael, Madeline, and Sharon
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