Change is coming to Mankato property School Sisters of Notre Dame selling campus on Good Counsel Hill. April 10, 2021 3:12pm Text size Copy shortlink:
After more than a century as a Mankato landmark, big changes may be in store for the School Sisters of Notre Dame campus on Good Counsel Hill.
Citing the need to raise money for its mission, as well as care for its aging sisters, the religious congregation has announced plans to sell the 135-acre campus on a bluff that overlooks downtown Mankato and the Minnesota River. We have developed mutual relationships with generations of people in the Mankato area, the School Sisters said in a statement. Letting go of sacred and treasured spaces is a historic journey for us; one that we are committed to do in prayer, dialogue and collaboration.
The author on his ordination day. Mary Stephen Healey, R.D.C., is pictured at right.
As we well know, the pandemic has upended the lives of us all and brought great suffering to many, especially those who lack resources or who were already living on the margins. Children have had to face their own particular challenges with almost all schools around the nation going fully remote for the final months of the last academic year and many remaining this way or offering only part-time in-person instruction since the fall. School administrators have had to be incredibly resourceful meeting these unprecedented challenges.