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Featured in the winter 2021 issue of Salt magazine. by Mary Glindinning Seeing her family’s struggle with illness and overcoming her own health issues convinced Lisette Aracely Movano Quimis that she wanted to be a nurse, because she wants to help…
BVM Luann Brown sorts through much-needed donations during her service in San Diego to help families who are crossing the border. She reflects, “In companioning families through the airport, I am struck by how little they have. Some travel to…
Dubuque CROP Walk coordinator Sara McCaw (r.) shares how Anita Therese Hayes, BVM and Dorothy Krayer volunteered for the project for more than 30 years as she dedicated Saturday's walk to them. On Saturday, 20 Sisters of Charity of the…
Associates Norm and Marabeth Freund of Dubuque, Iowa, are both teachers who will retire at the end of this school year. Read about how association impacted their teaching and their lives in this Q&A interview by Associate Coordinator Grace Mendez…
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…