Locations

Home to all of our sisters, residence of our General Administration, of postulants, novices, directresses, retired sisters, and many sisters involved in community apostolates, such as services in our business offices, St. Rita’s Health Care for our elderly and infirmed sisters, clinic, vocation office, archives, etc. Franciscan Sisters who reside at the Motherhouse also serve in various city outreaches to the poor and homeless, teaching religious education, working with youth and young adults, providing hospitality to priests, serving at Our Lady of Good Help Shrine, welcoming family members and visitors, directing vocation retreats, hosting meetings, teaching classes, etc. It is a place of prayer, retreats, and gatherings of the entire community.

The Offices of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity Sponsored Ministries, Inc. are located here in Manitowoc with our Franciscan Sisters serving the Catholic System in roles of Board Chair, Board Members and Vice President of Mission.

Utilizing music to bring joy and meaning to life, our Sisters are involved in giving private and group music lessons to children, youth, and adults on instruments including strings, woodwinds, percussion, piano etc. Recitals, concerts, choirs, and special celebrations are part of life for these Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity.

Education is key to Christian formation. Franciscan Sisters serve in area Catholic Schools and in parishes in the diocese. One of our Sisters is helpful as a Spanish translator. Another serves as Vicar for Religious.

Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity sponsored Franciscan Care Services continues to add services and upgrade and expand its facilities. One Sister serves as Director of Mission, other Sisters are present in varied ways in the various institutions.

Sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, our Sisters serve as board members and volunteers of hospitality.

A Franciscan Sister serves at the dicastery, the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops.

Genesis HealthCare System was created in 1997 as an affiliation between Good Samaritan Medical Center and Bethesda Care System, two health care organizations that served the community for more than 100 years. Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity are involved as a mission chaplain and volunteers providing care in a six-county region of southeastern Ohio.

Involved in both education and healthcare, Franciscan Sisters serve as teacher, mission director, and other roles of service in the West Point community.

A Franciscan Sister serves as a pastoral visitor to the elderly and the infirmed. Our Sisters continue to pray for this founding place in our history.

Franciscan sisters came to Immaculate Conception Grade School in the 1930’s serving in Catholic education. In 2000 Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas invited us to serve at Yuma Catholic High School. Today, two Sisters assist with student needs while another serves in the school office at Immaculate Conception School.

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St. Paul Elder Care Services, Kaukauna, sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, is assisting the Diocese of Green Bay in the loving care of residents here in Green Bay. A Franciscan Sister is now serving as Director of Mission serving employees and all involved in this community.

A Franciscan Sister serves at the Pope Paul VI Institute directing the Center for NaProEthics.

A Franciscan Sister serves as a Pastoral Minister to Annunciation, St. Joseph, St. Jude and St. Patrick parishes.

A Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity serves as a pastoral coordinator of two parishes in the Diocese of Marquette.

Though San Xavier Mission serves the local Tohono O’odham community, pilgrims from across the world visit “The White Dove of the Desert”.  All are welcome to attend Masses and special celebrations.

On the Tohono O’odham Reservation, one Sister is sacristan at San Xavier Mission. Another serves in pastoral work in religious education and sacramental ministry which embraces parishioners of all ages of the San Xavier Catholic Community.

Since August 2017, Franciscan Sisters are assisting in campus ministry at Michigan Tech, as well as in ministry to the people of St. Anne Parish. One Sister is also serving as a primary teacher at Sacred Heart School, L’Anse.

Our Sisters live at St. Anne Convent and serve in the parish, as well as nearby Sacred Heart School, L’Anse and St. Albert the Great University Parish, Houghton.

Franciscan Sister serves as a pastoral leader in two parishes in the Diocese of Marquette Michigan.

A group of our Franciscan Sisters resides and minister in various aspects of community service, outreach to the Catholic parish in Manitowoc, Holy Family Conservatory and a local nursing care facility.

Ministries of the Franciscan Sisters in the Catholic Parish include pastoral visits to the sick and homebound and serving as catechists in religious education programs.

In 2017 Franciscan Sisters returned to nearby St. Francis School. One of our Sisters helps in the school office.

Home

Healing and wholeness are the concentration of the Franciscan Sisters reaching out to the community as a director of mission and spiritual care; and as sponsored presence. Our Sisters live at St. Paul Convent within walking distance of St. Paul Elder Services sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity.

The Franciscan Sisters are involved in a diversity of roles at St. Peter Indian Mission on the Gila River Reservation e.g. Elementary and High School principals, teachers, librarian and pastoral outreach. Click here to learn more about the Sisters. Watch our videos.

Yuma Catholic High School is the only Catholic high school located in the southwestern corner of Arizona in the Tucson Diocese. Opened in 2000, Yuma Catholic is an authentic Catholic high school supported by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity on staff and a strong Catholic lay principal, two assistant principals, faculty and staff. One Sister teaches Theology and coaches Cross Country and assists in Campus Ministry. Here, Christ is real and His presence is experienced each day as people work and learn and grow together to make His Kingdom a reality in our world.