His pastoral attention has really been exquisite.” Then he went and visited our sisters in health care. “I don’t even know if the man got to eat that day. “The first day that he came, he went from table to table in our dining room, greeting people,” said Sister Dawn. She saw this support on display in the first visit that Cardinal Tobin made to her community’s motherhouse, which is northwest of Terre Haute. And certainly in terms of religious women, he has been so supportive of the work we do and the ministries in which we’re involved.” “I feel like he has been a wonderful pastor for all of us. “Cardinal Tobin is truly a good man,” said Providence Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, who was elected the new general superior of the Sisters of Providence of Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods in July. So it’s not surprising that the leaders of religious communities based in central and southern Indiana were grateful for Cardinal Tobin’s leadership in the archdiocese over the past four years, elated to learn that Pope Francis had selected him as a cardinal and sad when they heard that he had been appointed to leave the Hoosier state to lead the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J. He himself did this as a young man when he joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists), later served as the superior general of that worldwide order, then helped guide the life and ministry of the Church’s more than 1 million religious as the secretary (second in authority) of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Tobin has a soft spot in his heart for the men and women who have dedicated themselves to God and the Church in religious life. (File photo by Sean Gallagher)Ĭardinal Joseph W. Teresa of Avila, the foundress of the their religious order. 10, 2015, after celebrating a Mass with them in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Tobin poses with the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastary of St.
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