“The day dawned with a beautiful blue sky, bright sun and no clouds — a result of prayers for good weather,” remembers Daughter of Charity Betty Ann McNeil about Sept. 14, 1975, when she attended the canonization of St. Elizabeth[continue reading]
U.S. Daughter of Charity Sister Ann Sauvé, a member of the administrative staff at the order’s Sacred Heart Hospital in this Beirut suburb, will not easily forget Aug. 4 and the massive explosion in the port of Beirut. “I can[continue reading]
We, the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul USA, unite our hearts, voices, prayers, presence, and action with those of people of goodwill around the globe in affirming that black lives matter. We. Are. Outraged. The charity of[continue reading]
Catholic nuns emerged as the unexpected heroes in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed hundreds of thousands in the United States and millions worldwide. “While praise must be given to all workers who assisted in fighting the epidemic, special[continue reading]
Being home all day, every day is a new phenomenon for Sr. JoAnn Persch. The Sister of Mercy has spent every Friday morning for the past 14 years at a group prayer service outside an immigration detention facility in Chicago.[continue reading]
Reading is something we can all connect with, regardless of our faith, according to Daughter of Charity Sister Joanne Vasa. Sister Joanne, Director of Mission Integration for St. Vincent Early Learning Center in Evansville, was one of more than 70[continue reading]
They may be on the other side of the world from each other, but the people of Ethiopia and the Rio Grande Valley have a lot in common. That’s according to Sister Phylis Peters, Daughter of Charity, founder and executive[continue reading]
Energy was stirred by voices of persons experiencing homelessness and by the sense of collaboration among civil society, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and nations in focusing upon a specific issue. “It went from ‘engaging’ to ‘moving’[continue reading]
When a place has been around 190 years, it’s tempting to say “if these walls could talk,” you would know everything you need to know about it. Sister Donna Smith has that covered. It was 1830 when the order founded[continue reading]
BREATHING NEW LIFE It was an age when the poor were reviled. At best, peasants were seen as a nuisance; at worst, they were the scapegoats for the country’s societal ills. But to St. Vincent de Paul, they were Christ.[continue reading]