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]
Like many senior citizens, South Side resident Sabina Suarez does her best to make ends meet each month. Suarez, 75, lives on a fixed income. She recently learned that she faces a steep rent increase. But she still has to[continue reading]
Sr. Theresa Sullivan is the director of Daybreak Day Resource Center, a day shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Macon, Georgia. Sullivan, a Daughter of Charity and experienced health care administrator, came to Daybreak, which is a part of DePaul[continue reading]
It’s a Wednesday, and three teenagers are in Sr. Sheila Conley’s tiny office, learning about finances. Less than a block away, Sr. Mary Walz, a social worker, is at the Lexington Medical Clinic, running a diabetes education program. Down the[continue reading]
Before taking a seat onstage opposite Sister Carol Keehan, member of the Daughters of Charity order that launched early hospitals, orphanages and schools, VAHHS CEO Jeff Tieman described how working for the poor and vulnerable drove Sister Carol every day.[continue reading]
During an all-school Mass beginning their 60th anniversary on Sept. 17, members of the Elizabeth Seton High School community remembered the legacy of their patron saint and her commitment to the education of young women. “Today we celebrate a legacy[continue reading]
Sr. Pat Connolly threads her way past dozens of families lining the third-floor halls of San Antonio’s Travis Park Church. In former Sunday school classrooms filled with blue and green cots, some 270 immigrants from Central America, Haiti and the[continue reading]
On August 14, 2019, the Daughters of Charity in attendance at the 2019 Annual Leadership Conference for Women Religious affirmed a letter to President Trump. The Sisters asked for an end to divisive and polarizing rhetoric in a world increasing[continue reading]
Global efforts to combat human trafficking must focus on pressuring national governments to take action against traffickers and to eliminate systems of injustice that create the conditions for trafficking, sisters and other anti-trafficking advocates declared on the international day focused[continue reading]