FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

Some 200 Sisters of Charity of New York marched together with Federation members, associates and colleagues at the March 17th celebration of the St. Partick’s Day Parade in New York City. The parade was dedicated to the Sisters of Charity in honor of the Bicentiennal of  St. Elizabeth Seton’s founding of the Sisters of Charity [...]

What’s with those bonnets the nuns wore in “Doubt”? asks The Chicago Tribune in a piece about 5 good Oscar questions. Did they get it right?

The 2009 New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade is dedicated to the Sisters of Charity.  The Sisters are being honored for their many charitable works which began  in New York City in 1817.

The Daughters of Charity were skilled nurses long before Florence Nightingale. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban  Nelson, says the popular view that nursing invented itself in the second half of the nineteenth century is historically inaccurate and dismissive of the major advances in the care of the sick as a serious and skilled activity, [...]

On February 17, 1856 Pope Pius IX approved the Sisters of Charity of Halifax. Their web site is http://www.schalifax.ca/index.html

The first Sisters of Charity of Nazareth pronounced their vows in February, 1816. Today there are approximately 600 vowed members plus thousands of lay persons assisting their mission of working for justice for the oppressed, especially the economically poor and women, and care for the earth.

Sr. Gertrude Foley, SC writes, “I think that we trivialize our charism and tradition, if we limit it to mean only works of service….the grounding insight of our founders was mystical, powerful and empowering. This was the insight that answered their questions, allayed their doubts, and strengthened them when the testing came.”

Sisters of Charity have completed the revision of their website.  Among the current features is a section on the Sisters of Charity and the movie “Doubt” as well as nicely organize News pages presenting recent events and future events.

On January 3 approximately 450 members of  four of the Sisters of Charity Federation congregations gathered at Convent Station to inaugurate the Bicentennial Year of the founding of the Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg during the summer of 2009. – On January 10 sisters across the Midwest and Northeast will celebrate   her feast [...]

Writing in the National Catholc Reporter, Richard McBrien features Elizabeth as one of three North American models of holiness in this season.

The Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center, sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of New York  launches the first long-term care provider corporate university. This newly developed program will offer Pediatric Center employees a variety of courses focused on developing professional skills in the current healthcare industry corporate environment.  This will be the first long-term care provider [...]

The December newsletter-december-2008 of the activities of the NGO office of the Sisters of Charity Federarion is now available in pdf. format.

Streep researched the history of the Sisters of Charity and wore a wool gabardine replica of their habit with its distinctive bonnet. Before filming “Doubt,” the film version of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer-winning play, “We went up to Saint Vincent’s College, where we shot part of it. And we visited a retirement home for the [...]

December 8 marks

the Feast of the Immaculate Conception,
the canoncial establishment of the Confraternity of Charity- 1617;
one of the four major feasts chosen by the Society of St. Vincent DePaul 1834 and
the day on which many groups of the Sisters of Charity renew their vows.

It also marks the publication (1975) of the Paul VI’s exhortation to [...]

Sr. Carol Jean Wille, SC writes, “I am convinced that we can help to change the lives of hundreds of women and children with our alternative gift giving this Christmas by making a contribution to AIC of Nigeria, specifically to help sponsor their micro-financing projects (on behalf of widows).”