Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield

10/15/2026

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield are delighted to announce that we have entered into a formal agreement with the Boston College Catholic Religious Archives. As responsible stewards of our legacy we need to ensure that our community’s archives are preserved, which means finding a permanent, sustainable home for the archive collection so it remains accessible to future researchers.

Boston College recognized the need for a repository to maintain the records of Catholic religious congregations, and under the leadership of then President William P. Leahy, SJ, subsequently established the Boston College Catholic Religious Archives repository (BC CRA). BC CRA has just completed construction of a new, purpose-built 44,000 square foot modern archival facility with 100,000 linear feet of environmentally-controlled storage space exclusively for CRA collections.

After careful deliberation, the SSJ Leadership Team decided that Boston College’s commitment to the building project and to staffing the CRA with professional archivists demonstrated its sincere support of the Catholic archives community, and Sister Betsy and Boston College University Librarian Dr. Thomas Wall signed the Gift Agreement on October 15, 2026 – the 376th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of St. Joseph in France – symbolically marking another new beginning in the history of the SSJs of Rutland, Springfield and Fall River.

Left to right: Sister Denise Granger, Sister Patricia McDonnell, Sister Betsy Sullivan (seated) and Sister Eileen Sullivan.

10/11/2026

10/09/2026

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The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) stands against violence in all its forms, including the death penalty. Rooted in our Gospel values and our Declaration of Commitment, we remain steadfast in upholding the inherent right to life of every human being and the dignity of each person. W...

10/09/2026

We are so grateful for this statement from the USCCB

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of War announced that the firing squad ex*****on of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:

“It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War’s decision to publicly livestream the ex*****on of Nidal Hasan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: ‘do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public ex*****on even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.

“I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances.”

10/02/2026