Sister Jean Maher, Director of the McCabe Renewal Center in Duluth, attended the Association of Benedictine Retreat Centers Conference in Atchison, Kansas, August 21-24th. The keynote speakers, Sister Irene Nowell, OSB, and Sister Mary Collins, OSB, addressed the concern, “How to bring hope to a divided and wounded Church.” Among the thirty-one participants were representatives from the Federation of St. Benedict who are engaged in retreat ministry. Pictured left to right are: Sister Jean Maher, OSB, Duluth, Minnesota; Sister Kathleen Atkinson, Bismarck, North Dakota; Sister Charlotte Sonnerville, OSB, and Sister Mary Schmidt, OSB, both from Rock Island, Illinois; Sister Jean Juenemann, OSB, St. Joseph, Minnesota; Sam Raberg, Benedictine Oblate, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Sister Dorothy Manuel, OSB, St. Joseph, Minnesota.