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Tribute to the People of Ukraine
With great sadness, the Sisters of Charity and Associates learn daily of the Ukrainian people’s suffering in the current war. We express our solidarity with them in their faith in God and love of democracy. We pray for the refugees, for those who must remain in peril...
A Day of Discovery for Saint Raymond Students
On February 11, 2022, twenty students from Saint Raymond Academy for Girls in the Bronx participated in an Engineering Day of Discovery. The experience was made possible by the goodwill of the New York office of the Thornton Tomasetti engineering firm and a staff...
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton — Speaking the Language of Tenderness
By Regina Bechtle, SC The following is from the Winter 2022 issue of VISION. After Pope Francis’ July 2021 hospital stay, a headline in Catholic New York read: “Pope, recuperating from surgery, shows tenderness to fellow patients.” (Catholic New York, 7/15/21). In...
A Double Celebration in Quiché
By Nora Cunningham, SC The following is from the Winter 2022 issue of VISION. The Feast of St. Elizabeth Seton was celebrated with much joy in Guatemala on January 4, 2022. It was a doubly happy and blessed occasion as we welcomed our new postulant, Mayda Alicia Pérez...
Save the Date: Sisters of Charity Spring Benefit on Thursday, May 19, 2022
Save the Date!Thursday, May 19, 2022 • 6–9 pm Sisters of Charity Spring Benefit The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers There will be a cocktail hour and dinner at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, with a beautiful view of the Hudson River. The Benefit will honor Mr. Jerry...
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) — Listening the Words into Life
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) — Listening the Words into Life by Regina Bechtle, SC The following is from the Winter 2022 issue of VISION. “We are called…to be women of healing, sensitive to the wounds of persons and to the systemic evils of our...
The New York Foundling: A Warm Welcome to Melanie Hartzog as President and CEO
The following is from the Winter 2022 issue of VISION. The New York Foundling welcomed Melanie Hartzog as the organization’s new President and CEO on January 18. Hartzog will succeed longtime leader, Bill Baccaglini, who is retiring. Hartzog, who recently completed...
In Memoriam: Sister Anne O’Connell, SC
Sister Anne brought her enthusiastic spirit and personal warmth to the hundreds of students she greeted each day and to the families whose joys and sorrows she willingly embraced. Sister Anne, formerly Sister Joseph Marian, was born April 25, 1936, in the Bronx. She...
Sister Noreen Sugrue–First Congregation Archivist at Mount Saint Vincent
By Mindy Gordon, Archivist The following is from the Winter 2022 issue of VISION. As a Sister of Charity of New York, Sr. Noreen Sugrue has shared her creative skills as a teacher, artist and archivist throughout her endeavors. Born in New York City in 1942, she...
Caring for our Common Home
With Sister Mary Ann Garisto from the Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation The following is from the Winter 2022 issue of VISION. The main goal of the fall 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, commonly known as COP26, was...