PRINTER'S NO. 197
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
30
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY SCHWANK, MARTIN, DINNIMAN, FONTANA, J. WARD,
BREWSTER, BARTOLOTTA, VOGEL AND ARGALL, FEBRUARY 5, 2019
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, FEBRUARY 5, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the week of March 8 through 14, 2019, as "National
Catholic Sisters Week" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, "National Catholic Sisters Week" originated in 2014
as an official component of National Women's History Month; and
WHEREAS, The week aims to raise awareness of the impact of
women religious and to connect them with contemporary women
through events across the nation annually during the week of
March 8 through 14; and
WHEREAS, Since fourteen Ursuline nuns arrived in New Orleans
from France in 1727 and opened what is today the oldest
continuously operating school for girls in the United States,
Catholic sisters have played core temporal and spiritual roles
in communities in this Commonwealth and across the country; and
WHEREAS, Catholic sisters have influenced American religion,
education, nursing and social work by founding and serving
schools, hospitals and similar institutions; and
WHEREAS, Catholic sisters founded post-secondary institutions
that opened the doors of opportunity for tens of thousands of
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