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A Day of Reflection & Inspiration at St. Patrick Villa: Season of Creation – To Hope & Act
By Diandra Garcia-Heredia, Advocacy & Program Coordinator, Office of Peace Justice and Integrity of Creation On a serene afternoon at St. Patrick Villa on September 24, surrounded by sweeping greenery and the vibrant sounds of nature, I joined a group of about a...
Celebrating Black Catholic History Month
By The Voting and Anti-Racism Committee, Office of Peace, Justice & Integrity of Creation (PJIC) In honor of Black Catholic History Month, the Banner of the Saintly Six will be displayed at each Retirement House throughout November. Currently, it can be seen in...
Please Pray With Us During This Crucial Time
As part of our mission as Sisters of Charity of New York, we have always tried to live our promise to respond to the signs of our times. Presently, our nation is in a fragile time in which the ethical and moral strength of the country is at risk. There has been an...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Online Discussion Series
By the Voting and Anti-Racism Committee from the Office of Peace, Justice, and Integrity of Creation Beginning in 2022, we spent two years reading and discussing 10 chapters of The 1619 Project. In summer 2024, we viewed and reflected on the three-part series entitled...
A Day with the Sisters of Charity at Kittay: Addressing the Crisis in Haiti
Sr, Mary Kay FInneran discusses some of the ways our Sisters at Kittay can participate in the effort to stop illegal arms to Haiti. By Diandra Garcia, Advocacy and Program Coordinator, Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation My recent experience with our...
Our Sisters on Mission at the New York Foundling, 1888
By Mindy Gordon, Archives Director Did you know… In 1869, with five dollars and the encouragement of her superiors, Sr. Mary Irene Fitzgibbon opened the New York Foundling Hospital as a response to the increase in infanticide and the number of destitute children in...
Sisters at Kittay Hope and Act with Creation
Sr. Winifred Goddard, Sr. Anna Marian Lascell, Sr. Mary Kay Finneran and Diandra Garcia embracing the Season of Creation. By Diandra Garcia, Advocacy and Program Coordinator, Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation During this Season of Creation, about a...
In Memoriam: Sister Elizabeth Stelmack, SC
Her years at Saint Vincent’s Hospital, Staten Island, were particularly special for her as she learned there the many aspects of nursing care. Sister Elizabeth Stelmack, Sister Edward Maureen, was born November 18, 1928, in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, one of twelve...
Prayer for Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton’s 250th Birthday
Gracious God, we give you thanks today for Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, who found life in your love. Her faith in you released hidden springs of strength, freedom and initiative for the service of your people. In the Eucharist, in the city street, in the classroom and...
A Banner Birthday
By Sr. Regina Bechtle, originally published in the Summer 2024 issue of Vision Magazine. August 28, 1774: The weather forecast was “Clear but turning Warm. Wind Southerly.” Somewhere in New York City, young doctor Richard Bayley and his wife Catherine Charlton Bayley,...