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Sisters of Charity Sign Interfaith Statement on the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — attacks which devastated these cities causing up to 213,000 deaths by the end of 1945 and many more in the following years. The attacks inflicted excruciating pain and suffering...
PJIC Office Shares Declaration of Responsibility in the Struggle for Racial Justice
In its July update, the Office of Peace Justice and Integrity of Creation shares the Declaration of Responsibility in the Struggle for Racial Justice. The Declaration of Responsibility for Systemic Racism, drafted by Faith in Action, is the product of a...
The Pandemic in Guatemala
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. It seems impossible to identify the exact time when the coronavirus entered the United States, and it was even less possible to determine its manifestation in Guatemala, Central America. In conversation with...
SC Archives: Sisters Stand Up to Be Counted for the 1980 Census
The following is from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. When the 1980 Census was conducted, Sr. Mary T. Higgins was an administrator at Mount Saint Vincent Convent. The sisters who lived at the Convent at that time were determined to be included. The new...
SC Ministries Continue to Serve those in Need
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. Even in the best of times, the Sisters of Charity ministries face numerous challenges. Helping the homeless, those who are hungry, the many who suffer from mental health difficulties or a myriad of...
Sisters Hill Farm: Hope Amidst the Pandemic
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. “Praise for the farmers, tilling soil, planting seeds so food can grow, an act of hope if ever there was.” This verse from Christine Valters Painter’s Praise Song for the Pandemic aptly describes the work at...
COVID-19 & Casa de Esperanza
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. There is an unforgettable image with which most of us are familiar: Christ on the breadline standing along with a line of impoverished men and women who are suffering through the Depression. He is there, one...
One Congregation Work Group Brings Associates Together
It was a warm and muggy Saturday afternoon in New York but a sunny and comfortable day in Guatemala when 39 sisters, associates, and companions from both countries gathered virtually for a retreat focusing on the experiences of being quarantined during the COVID-19...
Sisters Memorialized in Videos
Nine Sisters of Charity went home to God during the height of the pandemic last spring. In lieu of our treasured tradition of paying tribute to our sisters’ lives and sharing stories together as a Congregation, a video commemorating the life of each sister who passed...
SC Legacy: Sister Mary Frances Wallace, Founding SCNY Member
Sister Mary Frances Wallace, one of the founding Sisters of Charity of New York, died on this day in 1890 and is buried in the Sisters’ Cemetery at Mount Saint Vincent. Maria Wallace entered the community in Emmitsburg, Md., in 1832. A few years later, she was sent to...