Our ministries have changed. Thirty five years ago, Marianites in most situations, ministered together in schools or hospitals often in Marianite-owned or sponsored institutions. Now many Marianites find themselves ministering with lay colleagues as the only Sister on the faculty or the only Sister in a church parish setting. This decision acknowledges that unfortunately exclusion turns up everywhere.
Exclusion appears as prejudice, closed-mindedness, snobbery.
It is always present when one person rejects another person simply because of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, ideology, poverty, riches and on and on. Exclusion creates victims. Exclusion exists everywhere and creates great suffering in individuals and groups. Jesus welcomed them as friends. Sometimes exclusion can be heard in conversations that people of one race have about people of another race. . .