As sponsors, we publicly identify with, exert appropriate influence on, and provide various levels of support to these ministries. In so doing, we fulfill our responsibility of stewardship for our heritage, mission, and resources.
After spending many years in education and parish ministry, Sr. Helen Budzik became a member of the startup team that began the Franciscan Spiritual Ministries in Aston, Pennsylvania. She has served in various roles with the spiritual center ever since.
Main address and phone number:
609 S. Convent Road, Aston, PA 19014
(610) 459-4125.
Statement Of Catholic Sisters Filing Derivative Complaint Against Smith & Wesson Officers And Directors for Breach Of Fiduciary Duty As Catholic Sisters and women of faith who believe in the sanctity of life, our hearts ache at the exponential rise in gun deaths and mass shootings in our country that have ravaged the lives of [...]
Statement on COP28 and Laudate Deum The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia urge the U.S. Legislator to COP28, Mr. Lilburn Trigg Talley, to strongly support clear, concrete policies to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. As a Franciscan congregation, we undertook work to protect our sister Mother Earth a quarter of a [...]
MESSAGE FROM THE SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS: We have recently learned that the report issued by the Attorney General of Maryland in early April includes the now unredacted name (#149) of a novice in our congregation, Sr. Marie Joan Agnes, otherwise known as Catherine Hasson. Sr. Marie Joan voluntarily left our order in 1945 for [...]
The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia 2023 Jubilee Celebration was held the weekend of June 3-4, 2023. Jubilarians celebrating 50 and 70 years of religious profession gathered at Our Lady of Angels Convent in Aston, Pennsylvania, for a weekend of recalling memories and celebrating both the years past and the years to come. On [...]
Statement on Staffing Native American Schools The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia staffed nine boarding schools for Native American children from 1887 to 1985 in five states as part of the 87 Catholic-run Native boarding schools during that time. Today, we are acutely aware that these schools caused much pain to the Native American [...]
MESSAGE FROM THE SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS: We have read the report issued by the Attorney General of Maryland which describes horrific acts of abuse by numerous members of the clergy in the Archdiocese of Baltimore over many decades. One allegation involves a sister from our congregation which took place in the 1950s. The Sister [...]
