We, the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in the United States of America, support the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ statement that separating children from their mothers and fathers at the United States/Mexico border is immoral. Protecting the integrity[continue reading]
In the high-stakes negotiations about nuclear arms on the Korean Peninsula, men are dominating the headlines. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea President Moon Jae-in are garnering the lion’s[continue reading]
Before the first vegetable ripened in its fields on Evansville’s West Side, of the Daughters of Charity’s Seton Harvest Ministry had provided enough fresh vegetables – grown on-site – for 500 meals. Hydroponics has come to Seton Harvest – thanks[continue reading]
St. Lazare House, a permanent housing program in St. Louis, aims at giving older, homeless young adults with mental health needs a chance at stability. The 15-unit apartment building in south St. Louis is operated through Depaul USA, and provides[continue reading]
Even on a cloudless day, sunshine isn’t the brightest light in Florissant, Missouri. Not when there’s someone bringing children out of the darkness. Sister Helen Negri runs the Marygrove campus for Catholic Charities. “Sister Helen is very loving. She’s very[continue reading]
The Southfield-based Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul International Project Services teamed up with Farmington-based Global Health Charities to donate 1,000 clean birth kits to poor women in Nigeria on March 8, International Women’s Day. The birth kits[continue reading]
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul, USA, joined an amicus brief (friend-of-the court) submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ninth District supporting a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 199 religiously[continue reading]
In 1983, Msgr. Robert Slattery, then president of Catholic Charities of St. Louis, recruited Sister Helen Negri to become the chief operating officer of Marygrove. She began with seven residents and built it to a multifaceted program of residential care[continue reading]
Loss of life through violence is never acceptable. It is particularly abhorrent when our young are taken at the dawn of their full potential. The Daughters of Charity of the United States are overwhelmed, saddened and outraged at the loss[continue reading]
The Congregation of the Mission, Eastern Province is producing a series of videos throughout Lent that will reveal what being Vincentian means to its members. Their website states, “St. Vincent de Paul encouraged five particular traits in his comrades: simplicity, meekness,[continue reading]