Published Mar 11, 2021
The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur held a virtual prayer service February 12 to close out the 15th Anniversary Year of the assassination of Sister Dorothy Stang by wealthy landowners in the Brazilian Amazon. The prayer service included the participation of two Sisters who worked alongside Sister Dorothy: Sister Joan Krimm and Sister Jo Anne Depweg. Sister Elizabeth Bowyer also took part. Sister Elizabeth was the Ohio Province Provincial who received the news of Sister Dorothy’s death. The service was opened by Archbishop Daniel Schnurr, of the Cincinnati Archdiocese.
Discussion followed the prayer service, and included interviews of Sisters Jane Dwyer and Kathryn Webster, who also worked with Sister Dorothy and who remain in Brazil carrying on the work of empowering homesteaders in their struggles with wealthy landowners; a reflection by Samuel Clements, who produced a documentary on Sister Dorothy’s work in the year before she