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By Jean Byrne, BVM BVM Center News, August 1998 Some people seem to be uniquely qualified for the needs of the time in which they live. One of these, Alice Rutherford, was born a New England puritan in Monckton, Vermont,…
Rachael Stieber-Smith, fitness director at Mount Carmel in Dubuque, Iowa, moved Strength and Stretch classes from in-person to on closed circuit television due to coronavirus. When Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary couldn’t gather for fitness classes due…
Thirty-seven women at Loyola University Chicago are 2019-20 Gannon Scholars. The program is named for BVM Ann Ida Gannon, who hoped women would be inspired "not only to achieve their rightful place in society but also to use their gifts…
Helen (Robert Joseph) Maher Garvey, BVM was an iconic, lifelong, collaborative leader. The woman with a great laugh and quick wit was a role model, mentor, and consensus builder. Helen served as president of the Sisters of Charity of the…
To celebrate Catholic Sisters Week, three Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary shared the stories of how they discerned their calling at Mount Carmel in Dubuque, Iowa, recently. Before a crowd of other BVMs and staff members, they…
by Archivist Jennifer Head BVM Center News, September 2013 Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, BVM was one of the first women to receive a PhD in computer science, which she received from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. She was the…
by Terese Shinners, BVM Winter 2020, issue of Salt This year, there will be a dramatic shift in the trajectory of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary story. A new senior living community attached to the Mount…
Mary Frances Clarke, foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was a quiet woman of faith and resolve who possessed an adventurous pioneering spirit. At the invitation of Bishop Mathias Loras, she and four other…
Mount Carmel Bluffs is a shared ministry of the Sisters of Charity, BVM and Presbyterian Homes & Services. The blue, green, and yellow colors of the logo represent the peaceful surroundings of the Mount Carmel property which has been in…
by Lois Dolphin, BVM BVM Center News, April 2001 Two recent newspaper columns by African American columnists have caused me to reexamine my own tendency to think in stereotypical patterns. Leonard Pitts, writing about the latest school shootings, wondered about…