On consecutive weeks, three Vincentian family speakers will present what being Catholic has to do with the environment. The talks will focus on the Vincentian call to action and Catholic understandings of love and justice. Each talk will begin and[continue reading]
Some 300 religious sisters on Tuesday heard their peers call on them to “empower women” through education, institutions specifically created to support women, being critical of situations where women are being “trampled on,” and by telling the stories of the[continue reading]
With an indomitable spirit, Sister Adela Orea, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and currently the administrator of San Carlos de Altamirano Chiapas Hospital in southern Mexico, has provided health care for 37 years in remote and[continue reading]
Grand Valley Catholic Outreach recently completed a handsome new 34-unit apartment building for youth experiencing homelessness in Grand Junction, Colorado. Benedictine Sr. Karen Bland, the agency’s executive director, is justifiably proud of the new facility, meant for people ages 18[continue reading]
Sister Gloria Esposito, DC, was working at St. Mary’s School in Troy in 1958, when she got the news that she was missioned to Bolivia. The Daughters of Charity sister on the other end of the line told Sister Gloria[continue reading]
“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]