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Lumen Christi Finalist

2019 u 2020

Lumen
Christi
AWARD
FINALIST

SISTER BARBARA BOGENSCHUTZ, OP |
DIOCESE OF RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA
Offering hope to

Native Americans

ominican Sister Bar-
bara Bogenschutz
does not let a dark
night or the fact that
she’s driving alone
Ddeter her from pick-
ing up a hitchhiker on a rural road
on the Pine Ridge Indian Reser-
vation in South Dakota. This is her
home, she knows everyone, feels
safe and wants to lend a hand.
“The greatest blessings and
challenges in this ministry are the
same,” she said. “I never know
what the day will hold, and I am
never lacking in ‘that-was-a-first’
experiences,” she said.
Our Lady of the Sioux Church in
Oglala, with 250 members, is the
Sister Barbara Bogenschutz serves Native Americans who face harsh living conditions Church’s main pastoral presence
and extreme poverty in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. on the reservation’s western edge.