Sister Mary Catherine Conway, D.C., says she learned one of her greatest lessons in ministry from a first grader....
Daughters of Charity
The other St. Martha
Just about everyone has heard of St. Martha, the residence where Pope Francis lives and which is staffed by the...
Dangers faced by Vincentians and Daughters of Charity in Rwanda and Burundi
Fr. Néstor Gómez, cm, Regional Superior reports about dangers faced by Vincentians and Daughters of Charity in Rwanda...
Daughter of Charity – Notre Dame rooter
When TV executives predicted that college football's Bowl Championship Series title game would attract a record number of viewers, maybe they sensed that Sister Catherine Marie McGranary, DC, would be enlisting a pack of her fellow senior sisters to watch. Excerpts...
Non-Profit novel to benefit Haiti
From the folks at ZAFEN, the Vincentian Family Project in Haiti - A FREE Kindle edition of “BECAUSE WE ARE,” a mystery set in Cite Soleil, Haiti, is available on Amazon today! This is the neighborhood where the Daughters of Charity work....
Blessed Lindalva DC
VinFormation offers the following feature on the life of Blessed Lindalva, DC. The seven slides can be used either as a personal aid to meditation on or life or as a short presentation in a group context.
It’s (Not) The End
It's (Not) The End writes Soon-to-be Sister Amanda, DC... After a year and a half of writing about my formation journey with the Daughters of Charity, I'll be ending this blog. Well, sort of. Actually, I'll be suspending it - "ending" just sounded more dramatic and...
Blessed Lindalva 1993 martyr
Blessed Lindalva Justo de Oliveira was the first woman to be beatified in Brazil. She was still a young Daughter of Charity, 4 years-vocation, when she was martyred. Her fidelity to her vocation and her love for everyone without preferences were so intense that she...
Why join a so-called “dying community”?
Amanda Kern writes, "The question is.....why would a healthy 20-something join a community like this, a community where the average age is in the 70s, a community where she may soon see Sisters she knows and loves forget who she is? Why not join a community where the...
Daughters of Charity – Focus on Elizabeth
For the month of January you can journey in this year of faith with the first saint of the United States, Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton. Our FOCUS ON section is devoted to her. You will discover a woman who was totally inhabited by God and who placed her life at the...
Daughters of Charity merge 3 provinces (Spain)
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2012 Superioress General of the Daughters of Charity Sister Evelyne Franc and the General Council appointed S.Pilar Rendón DC a first Visitatrix of the new Province of Spain South. The new province results from merging three of nine...
2012 – Reflections of a translator
Reflections of a Translator: End of the Year Reflections At this time of the year the various media outlets look back at the events that occurred during the past twelve months and highlight the most outstanding happenings. Therefore let me, as a translator, engage...
