by Communications Office | Feb 10, 2023 | home, NEWS
By Sr. Regina Bechtle Born in Cuba around 1790, Elizabeth Lange emigrated around 1813 to Baltimore, where many refugees from the Haitian revolution (1791-1804) had fled. Finding a lack of public education for black children, she and a friend began to teach them in...
by Communications Office | Feb 2, 2023 | home, NEWS
(In recognition of National Catholic Schools Week we invite you to read “Elizabeth Seton – Educator” by Sr. Mary E. Mc Cormick, originally published in the 2018 Autumn edition of Vision.) What exactly was Saint Elizabeth Seton’s first school like?...
by Communications Office | Jan 12, 2023 | home, NEWS
Click graphic to register for event Register to join us on Wednesday, January 25 at 1:30PM for People of Faith Welcoming Persons Without Homes an online conversation with panelists Marc Greenberg, James Addison, Pietro Bartoli, and Tom Dobbins. Part of their...
by Communications Office | Jan 10, 2023 | home, Immigration, NEWS, PJIC News
By Sr. Carol De Angelo No room in the inn. The Christmas Posada, a tradition in many Spanish speaking countries during the Christmas Season, reenacts the story of Joseph seeking shelter for Mary about to give birth to Jesus. At each place Joseph and...
by Communications Office | Jan 8, 2023 | home, NEWS, Reflections
Photo credit: Church of the Epiphany, Manhattan, NY Reflection on the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Jan. 8, 2023 My heart aches – I’m sure yours does too – when I hear about the persecution of one ethnic or political group by another. Front and center...
by Communications Office | Dec 14, 2022 | home, NEWS
[Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ urges us to cultivate “hearts…authentically open to universal communion.” (#92) In response to this call in light of our charism of Charity, Sr. Claire E. Regan offered these thoughts on a snowy December morning.] In her...
