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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? How was St. Joseph’s...

A Turning of a New Season

A Turning of a New Season

[Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ urges us to cultivate “hearts...authentically open to universal communion.” (#92) In response to this call in light of our charism of Charity, Sr. Claire E. Regan offered these thoughts on a snowy December morning.] In her recent...

God With Us Through Direct Service and Advocacy

God With Us Through Direct Service and Advocacy

By Sr. Carol De Angelo O Come O Come Emmanuel (God with us). I love the Advent Season. The liturgical readings remind me of waiting in hopeful expectation for the coming of God’s reign in its fulness, of God made flesh … in Jesus and in us and all Creation.  Taking a...

A Special Prayer for Elections 2022

A Special Prayer for Elections 2022

As people of faith and faithful citizens, we pray these days before, on and following Election Day that we work for a democracy that values respect, dignity, inclusiveness, and equity. We pray that voters, election workers, those who hold political office, those who...

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