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Presidents Day: Standing on the Shoulders

Presidents Day: Standing on the Shoulders

The Congregation recently began our election year pre-assembly meeting with a special tribute video presented by the Executive Council, celebrating decades of work from our five living SCNY Presidents (year of service order): Sr. Carol A. Barnes Sr. Elizabeth A....
Black History Month: Mother Mary Lange

Black History Month: Mother Mary Lange

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...
Elizabeth Seton— Educator

Elizabeth Seton— Educator

(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?...