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Servant of God Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, American professed sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth (1901-1927). “The website of the Sisters of Charity Convent Station asks the question about one of its own. For more information about Bayonne-born Venerable  Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich visit the Vincentian Encyclopedia entry devoted to her.” “Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, [...]

Sisters of Charity Ministry Foundation is proud to be co-sponsoring with the  Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education  ”An Evening with Elie Wiesel” on Sunday May 6, 2012 at Xavier University. Professor Wiesel will reflect on the Holocaust, and the work that remains to be done to secure a safe and tolerant world for future generations. Over [...]

The Spring edition of VISION  (Pdf), the newsletter of the Sisters of Charity of New York, presents an attractive model of how a newsletter can be used to tell the story of our charism as lived by these sisters. In addition to an informative introduction by their President  Sister Jane Iannucili, SC, it beautifully tells [...]

Sr. Barbara Aires of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, New Jersey, who has led the Walmart engagement for over 20 years, writes “We have a tremendous investment in this company in terms of our time, expertise and yes, capital, and find these allegations deeply disturbing on so many levels. Should these reports be [...]

VinFormation presents a special feature in honor of  the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati to celebrate their establishment 160 years ago. Mother Margaret Farrell George. Her life has amazing parallels with the life trials of Elizabeth Ann Seton and Louise de Marillac. She  married in 1807. But she was widowed in late 1808 and buried a newborn daughter in [...]

In Post-Civil War New York, some 30,000 homeless children wandered the streets. Catholic sisters provided alternatives to failing public alms-houses. The babies showed up at the front door of the house, in a variety of outfits and packages. Some were dressed in rags, some in fine clothing. Some had a dollar pinned to their blanket, [...]

Sisters and Associates gathered in Smith Hall on Saturday, February 25, for the first Congregation Day of 2012. The theme of the day was, “Crossing the Threshold: Integration of Interview Perspectives within the Paschal Mystery.” The meeting was facilitated by John Reid and Maureen Gallagher, who were asked by our Leadership to help implement the [...]

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. [...]

New life from old…CBC News reports that the  147 year old  Sisters of Charity’s convent, Motherhouse, Saint Vincent Chapel in Saint John, New Brunswick is soon to be demolished. But over the weekend, about 30 volunteers with Habitat for Humanity worked to salvage materials before the bulldozers arrive. The volunteers removed truckloads of furniture, light fixtures, [...]

Two  Sisters of Charity of Nazareth  India have been invited to attend the UN General Assembly next month. One of them, Sr Anjana Kunnath, has found a successful herbal cure for malaria in Artemisia, a family of plants and herbs that includes tarragon and wormwood. “I am attending the UN General Assembly to share the success [...]