The Barbara Ford Peace Center
Under the guidance of Luciano Laynez, the Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center promotes integrated human and spiritual development by offering programs of all types; social, spiritual, educational, cultural, political, and judicial. Offered to individuals, families and communities, the programs empower them to be agents of change for transformation of themselves and society in order that they may live lives that are just, dignified and in harmony with themselves and the cosmos.
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Updates from Guatemala
Health Care in the Highlands
By Sheila Brosnan, SC Expectant mothers wait to be weighed at Clinica Mariana, Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan. The following is from the Summer 2021 issue of Vision. When the Sisters of Charity arrived in Guatemala in 1971, the anticipated life span of...
The Guatemalan Mission — 1971 – 2021
The following is from the Summer 2021 issue of Vision. by Mary Mc Cormick, SC New York Sisters of Charity have always cherished Elizabeth Seton’s understanding of her desire to be known as a “citizen of the world.” Sr. Marie Immaculata Burke provided care to...
A Summer to Remember: Cooper Union Students at the Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center
For six weeks this summer the Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center is hosting three undergraduate engineering students from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. The Guatemala experience is the newest element...
The Martyrs of Quiché
By Sister Mary E. Mc Cormick On April 23, 2021, in a moving ceremony conducted outdoors under a clear blue sky, ten men were beatified as martyrs in Santa Cruz, Quiché. The men, three missionary priests from Spain and seven native lay catechists, gave their lives for...
One Community February Dialog: Water and the Holy Spirit!
On Tuesday, February 23, from 7 to 9 pm in New York and 6 to 8 pm in Guatemala, 35 Sisters, Companions, Associates and friends gathered for a dialog on the effect of water in our lives. An excerpt from a water blessing video filmed at Lake Atitlán gave us a sense of...
One Community Working Group Meets a Second Time
On the afternoon of August 22nd, the Congregation’s “One Community Working Group” met via ZOOM for the second time. Thirty-one Sisters and Associates from both Guatemala and the United States participated. Our vision for unity between American members and those in...
