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Alert to the needs of our time and with Mary Ward's breadth of vision, we serve in a wide variety of ministries. Around the world you will find us serving in schools, social service centers, shelters for the abused and homeless, retreat and spiritual life centers, rural and urban parishes, as development workers, as prison chaplains, as home visitors, as spiritual caregivers for persons with HIV/AIDS, in advocacy and lobbying at the local/national levels and the United Nations, and wherever contemporary needs arise.

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Converging Paths Inspire and Embolden for the Future:  This is a story of our joint NGO Office and how it effectively helps us to realize our mission and deepen our spirituality, those values and traditions so cherished within each of our congregations.  How is it that our paths converge and lead us to form this mutually beneficial relationship?
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Lorraine Crawford, IBVM, works with a student learning English at Mary Ward Center

Confidence Breeds Competence: Loretto sisters bring education, encouragement to immigrants at Mary Ward Center, Chicago

?Congratulations!? reads the display on the Mary Ward Center?s wall. ?We are so proud of you!? Lovingly mounted by the three Loreto Sisters who live and work at the center, the display bears photos of the students who come here each week to read, write, and speak better English. But it?s their smiles in the pictures that say it all.
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