{"id":335,"date":"2015-06-01T21:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/?p=335"},"modified":"2015-06-03T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T10:07:05","slug":"statement-on-megan-rice-shcj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/statement-on-megan-rice-shcj\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on the Release of Megan Rice, SHCJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Mary Ann Buckley, SHCJ<\/p>\n<p>Society of the Holy Child Jesus<\/p>\n<p>American Province Leader<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hcjLogoFinalCOLORSeal.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hcjLogoFinalCOLORSeal-640x640.jpg\" alt=\"hcjLogoFinalCOLORSeal\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 127px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 127\/127;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>May 16, 2015<\/p>\n<p>The Society of the Holy Child Jesus is pleased to learn that Megan Rice, SHCJ, has been released from prison after serving more than two years for trespassing and defacing government property at a federal enriched uranium facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>While the Society does not condone criminal activity, we support Sister Megan and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/human-life-and-dignity\/war-and-peace\/nuclear-weapons\/\">Roman Catholic Church\u2019s teachings against nuclear weapons<\/a>. With the Church, we believe that nuclear weapons are incompatible with the peace so desperately needed throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>As a 169-year-old international community of Catholic women, the Society has a history of standing up for those in need and, in the words of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/our-story\/cornelia-connelly\/\">Cornelia Connelly<\/a>, our Foundress, \u201cseeking to meet the wants of the age.\u201d We are dedicated to helping women, children, men, and families by providing educational, spiritual, and social justice programs across four continents. \u00a0In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/\">American Province<\/a> alone, the Sisters have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/how-we-serve\/ministries\/american-ministry\/\">communities in 11 states<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/how-we-serve\/ministries\/american-ministry\/holy-child-elementary-school-and-our-lady-of-good-counsel-dispensary\/\">Dominican Republic<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/how-we-serve\/ministries\/american-ministry\/centro-cornelia-connelly\/\">Chile<\/a>, and minister to more than 20,000 people every year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Mary Ann Buckley, SHCJ Society of the Holy Child Jesus American Province Leader May 16, 2015 The Society of the Holy Child Jesus is pleased to learn that Megan Rice, SHCJ, has been released from prison after serving more than two years for trespassing and defacing government property at a federal enriched uranium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}