by Director of Communications | Mar 14, 2021 | Catholic Sisters Week, NEWS, Our Sisters
Sr. Margaret Donegan has a great love for education, which cultivated in her an ability and gift to recognize and encourage students’ potential and build their confidence. During her fifty-one-year teaching career, 1960 to 2011, Sr. Margaret inspired students in...
by Communications Office | Mar 13, 2021 | Catholic Sisters Week, NEWS, Our Sisters
Sister Eileen McGrory has a sign outside her office in the Sisters of Charity Center revealing her precision as a grammarian: “Let’s eat Grandma. Let’s eat, Grandma. Commas Save Lives.” Throughout her teaching career and related ministries, her exacting and...
by Director of Communications | Mar 11, 2021 | Catholic Sisters Week, NEWS, Our Sisters
Sister Francis Marita Sabara was born in 1932, a year she recalled, “when the rent for a five-room apartment was $28 a month and a four-room apartment was $22, including steamed heat and running water.” She knew these details because her parents worked as...
by Director of Communications | Mar 10, 2021 | Catholic Sisters Week, NEWS, Our Sisters
Before entering the Sisters of Charity of New York, young Elizabeth Vermaelen was asked by Mother Mary Berchmans, “What would you like to do as a Sister of Charity?” Sister Elizabeth recalls, “At that time, I did not feel qualified to really answer that question. What...
by Director of Communications | Mar 8, 2021 | Catholic Sisters Week, NEWS
Whenever Sisters of Charity of New York think of Sister Ann Costello, they think of her as “always being available.” Sister Ann was appointed Sisters of Charity Health Coordinator when the Congregation numbered 550 sisters and she was available 24/7 — for 17...
by Communications Office | Jan 7, 2021 | NEWS, Our Sisters, SC Legacy
Ulrica O’Reilly! Sisters smile when they hear her name. Wasn’t she the Civil War heroine who defied the mob and single-handedly saved the soldiers and military hospital from the angry rioters? She’s the very one! In “Nuns of the Battlefield,” Ellen Ryan Jolly tells us...
