by Communications Office | Sep 19, 2024 | home, Ministries, NEWS, Sisters of Charity Archives
By Mindy Gordon, Archives Director Did you know… In 1869, with five dollars and the encouragement of her superiors, Sr. Mary Irene Fitzgibbon opened the New York Foundling Hospital as a response to the increase in infanticide and the number of destitute children in...
by Communications Office | Sep 13, 2024 | home, NEWS
Sr. Winifred Goddard, Sr. Anna Marian Lascell, Sr. Mary Kay Finneran and Diandra Garcia embracing the Season of Creation. By Diandra Garcia, Advocacy and Program Coordinator, Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation During this Season of Creation, about a...
by Communications Office | Sep 11, 2024 | home, In Memoriam, In Memoriam 2024, NEWS
Her years at Saint Vincent’s Hospital, Staten Island, were particularly special for her as she learned there the many aspects of nursing care. Sister Elizabeth Stelmack, Sister Edward Maureen, was born November 18, 1928, in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, one of twelve...
by Communications Office | Aug 28, 2024 | home, NEWS
Gracious God, we give you thanks today for Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, who found life in your love. Her faith in you released hidden springs of strength, freedom and initiative for the service of your people. In the Eucharist, in the city street, in the classroom and...
by Communications Office | Aug 19, 2024 | home, NEWS
By Sr. Regina Bechtle, originally published in the Summer 2024 issue of Vision Magazine. August 28, 1774: The weather forecast was “Clear but turning Warm. Wind Southerly.” Somewhere in New York City, young doctor Richard Bayley and his wife Catherine Charlton Bayley,...
