International Women's Day on March 1 also marked the start of Catholic Sisters Week. Notre Dame is blessed to be part of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and to have both Sister Carol Shoup and Sister Gillian Wallace on our campus. 

St. Julie Billiart founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur to make known God’s goodness, especially among the most impoverished and abandoned people in the world. Today, Sisters of Notre Dame work with refugees in London, street children in Nairobi, immigrant farm workers in Florida, AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe, the homeless in Haiti… and always, with women and children, who are among the most vulnerable.