by John Freund, CM | Mar 5, 2009 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
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? Many of the habits and headgear of Catholic nuns date back several centuries or more, but the religious garb...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 25, 2009 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
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 Sisters have marched up New York’s Fifth Avenue in many of these...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 17, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
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...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 15, 2009 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
On February 17, 1856 Pope Pius IX approved the Sisters of Charity of Halifax. Their web site is http://www.schalifax.ca/index.html
by John Freund, CM | Jan 30, 2009 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
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...
