JS: Sister Isaac Jogues was a born educator — and Packers fan

Sylvia Linton had never met a nun when she started working as a librarian at Mount Mary College. She expected stern women in black robes and veils. Then she met Sister Isaac Jogues Rousseau.

"Sister I.J." wore green and gold on Packer game days, and she stopped by the library to belt out the Packer fight song, "Go! You Packers! Go!"

"She was the tiniest nun there, but she had the biggest spirit," Linton said.

Sister Isaac Jogues Rousseau, who educated Mount Mary students for 50 years and taught in seminaries from St. Louis to Rome, died of natural causes Wednesday in Elm Grove. She was 93.

Marjorie Rousseau was born in Green Bay on January 13, 1921 — the same year the Packers entered the NFL. "I was a Packer fan since birth," she often said. Her father was a public school principal; her mother stayed home to take care of Marjorie and her younger sisters, Rosemary and Eunice.

continue at JS

400 Wisconsin nuns signed Walker recall petition, 4 on Viterbo Univ board

via Entitlement Mentality Monitor:

At least 392 nuns participated in the left’s effort to recall Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. These Catholic gals are supposed to be pro-life and embrace traditional moral values. As a group, they seem intent on replacing the pro-life Walker with a pro-abort/pro-gay marriage secular humanist. I guess the “social justice” sisters support lefty Democrats  because they have confused nanny state socialism with charity.  Leftist claptrap psychobabble (think radical feminism/”gay equality”/moral relativism ETC) likely also holds a lot of appeal to them. Someone please explain to them that  socialism  A) doesn’t work B) involves forcible theft of the fruit of citizens’ labor  B) requires surrendering liberty to secular statist central planners  and  C)  can only be enforced by a tyranny.

Several recaller nuns acted as signature gatherers.  Some acted as witnesses to their own  signatures or signed twice, which is like voting twice. Many are so old that you have to wonder if they were taken advantage of by younger nuns. I bet the old ones also get a lot of “help” filling out absentee ballots.

There are many in the group with important sounding titles.  For example,

Sister  Linda Mershon is the President of  the order Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA).   [La Crosse .... this is nothing new]

Sister Celine Goessl not only signed the petition, but acted as a signature gatherer. She is listed as Provincial Superior for the Holy Cross Sisters (USA Province) and as President of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross Corporation.  [Merrill, WI]

Sister Carol Thresher is Provincial Superior of  the Sisters of the Divine Savior (USA Province).  [Wauwatosa, WI]

Sister Regina Pacis Meservey is a member of the Board of Trustees for Alverno College. [Milwaukee]
Sister Joanne Schatzlein is a Trustee of Cardinal Stritch University. [Milwaukee]
Sister Sara Jean Donegan sits on the Corporate Board of Mount Mary College. [Milwaukee]
And no less than four nun recallers sit on the Board of Trustees for Viterbo University: [La Crosse]
Sister Marie DesJarlais, Sister Karen Kappell, Sister Lucy Ann Meyer and Sister Romana Klaubauf.  

Read the entire list at Entitlement Mentality Monitor

The first one listed from the FSPA in La Crosse is Obama staffer Sister Marlene Weisenbeck.

Pro-abortion Rep. Gwen Moore to speak at Catholic Mount Mary College

First was this Tweet from Mount Mary College:

View the event info here.

Moore is proudly pro-abortion, and recently made the curious statement that “Pregnancy is a danger to women’s health.” PolitiFact rated Moore’s claim that Gov. Walker ended cancer screenings for low-income women as false. This past summer, Moore received an achievement award from Planned Parenthood of America. Moore spoke on behalf of Planned Parenthood at a Milwaukee “Pepto Bus” rally in March 2011. Moore rather infamously declared that abortion is better for a poor baby than a lifetime spent eating Ramen noodles.

And all of the above happened from February 2011 through February 2012. Moore is no wallflower when it comes to her love of Planned Parenthood and abortion.

To contact Mount Mary, email or call the President: salounp@mtmary.edu or (414) 256-1207.

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Marquette University & others sponsor terrorist Bill Ayers event

Marquette University, Alverno College, and Mount Mary College are listed as sponsoring the speaking engagement of terrorist Bill Ayers at Stonefly Brewery in Milwaukee. 

The host group Rethink Education is like a socialist/communist/activist movement ostensibly for "better" schools (which I think we all agree we need) but that comes at the price of indoctrination; like what they wrote about a teacher coming out as a lesbian to her students.

It's ironic that Milwaukee Catholic schools are in direct competition with public schools and yet all the Milwaukee Catholic colleges signed on to co-sponsor that event, when Rethinking Schools is anti-private-schools.

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