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Featured in the winter 2021 issue of Salt magazine. by Associate Katie Pfiffner Recently a friend was playing with the phrase ‘hindsight is 20/20,’ being grateful 2020 is behind us, and she asked me an intriguing question: “How has 2020 changed…
Photo from CSW63 in 2019: BVMs Saskia Karina Alquinga Cahuatijo (l.), Mary Frances (Virginia Mary) McLaughlin, and Roberta (Caritas) White share experiences with women from all parts of the world like Suman (r.) from India. More than 26,000 women virtually…
Be a tree hugger: BVMs Mira Mosle and Mary Ann Zollmann embrace a tree during a prayer ritual. Featured in the fall 2020 issue of Salt magazine. by Eileen Fuchs, BVM I recall as a child going on trips with…
BVM Laurene Brady and Irene Lukefahr celebrate the opening of the Archbishop Mensah Learning Center 10 years ago. Many readers view every library as a miracle. But the Archbishop Mensah Learning Center in Kumasi, Ghana, owes its existence to a…
Photos: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League-PA. Edited by Jean Byrne, BVM BVM Center News, June 2004 BVM grade school teachers often organized games on playgrounds during recess or lunch hours, and sometimes participated in them. The schools where Ann (Daniel…
Angela Wright-Lewis, a nurse and grandmother of children at a Chicago Archdiocese school, pleaded to keep children home for safe, remote learning at a press conference organized by Arise Chicago. Photo: Shelly Ruzicka, Arise Chicago. From the Salt Winter 2021…
A volunteer at a Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry in Virginia loads a car during COVID-19 response. BVMs donated to 120 food banks and pantries using their stimulus checks and benefactor donations. Photo courtesy of Blue Ridge…
The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary join Catholic Sisters from 24 congregations in four states this March to launch a yearlong, live-streamed conversation series on the leading social justice issues of our time. Titled “Exploring Intersections: Catholic…
BVM Sisters Mary McElmeel and Rosemary Surby are escorted to their new rooms at Mount Carmel Bluff. Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary are moving into Mount Carmel Bluffs, a shared mission of the BVM Sisters and Presbyterian…
Ruth Evermann, BVM (in blue coat) was surprised with flowers, gratitude, and love as she retired after 40 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools. Ruth (Lyle) Evermann, BVM thought she would spend three months teaching in Chicago Public Schools after…