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AFFINITIES A Journal of the Women of Charity is now available online. The February 2012, Volume III, Number 1 issue features news of those who have recently returned to God as well as news of former and current Daughters of Charity. Feb 2012 AFFINITIES Vol III No 1 (PDF) Related FAMVIN Posts:Blessed Giuseppina Nicoli DC – Special [...]

Losing your head, literally, to help couples celebrate their love! Beheading is the price Valentine paid many centuries ago. According to legend, he was a priest in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II and his title as the champion of romantic love came as a result of his intervention when the Emperor, in a [...]

As we celebrate Catholic School Week January 29 to February 4 in the United States, it is interesting to go back in time and wonder, “What exactly was Saint Elizabeth Seton’s first school like? How was it organized? What textbooks were used? What about the discipline? How much Religion was taught? The New York Sisters of [...]

Sr. Carol Keehan, DC speaking on behalf of the Catholic Health Association has released an updated statement on the recent HHS position on a narrow religious exemption for Catholic institutional employers. CHA and its members were profoundly disappointed to learn that the definition of a religious employer was not going to be broadened in the [...]

Sr Giuseppina (1863-1924) founded the “Young Women of Charity” in 1917, and opened with them in the poor, overpopulated suburb of Marina del Poetto a facility for the care of children afflicted with rickets and scrofulosis, a form of tuberculosis. Other apostolic works that developed with the assistance of Bl. Nicoli were those of the Propagation [...]

The NGO of Congregation of the Mission and Daughters of Charity reports on a victory for domestic workers. Domestic workers, people who work in other people’s homes in order to support themselves and their families, are extremely vulnerable because they work away from public scrutiny and government oversight. Their employers have total control over all of their work conditions. All too [...]

The Daughters of Charity share their insights on this among the many new features on Daughters of Charity international site. Other features include video of the work of the Daughters of Charity in both Texas and Mexico with immigrants, a report on a national gathering of Vincentian Marian Youth at Lyon focusing on meeting the Homeless [...]

The Daughters of Charity Health System plans to usher in its 10th anniversary year this month with a celebratory Mass in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel at Seton Provincialate. With six hospitals along the coast of California, DCHS embraces its mission of caring for the sick and those living in poverty. Until 1995, the Daughters of [...]

The time was 1990, when little was known about HIV/AIDS . Sr. Maureen Skelly, a Sister of Charity – Halifax, was a spiritual director on the staff of Mount Manresa, the Jesuit retreat house on Staten Island. Even though many wrongly feared that they would catch HIV/AIDS just by being with someone who had it, Sr. [...]

 The Pope writes, “Migrants are not only recipients but are also witnesses of proclaiming the Gospel in the contemporary world” “Today we celebrate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Millions of people are involved in the phenomenon of migration, but they are not numbers! They are men and women, children, the young and the old [...]