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In celebration of our 185 years as Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in grateful remembrance of our founding members who emigrated from Ireland to educate the children of immigrants fleeing their home countries because of starvation…
Sister Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, 103, died June 3, 2018, at Caritas Center, Dubuque, Iowa. Visitation will be 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. on Friday, June 8, 2018, in the Marian Hall Chapel followed by the Sharing of Memories at 11:15…
By Mira Mosle, BVM The Sisters of Charity, BVM, will mark 185 years as a religious community – 175 of them based in Dubuque – on June 10 at the 9 am Sunday liturgy at St. Raphael Cathedral. A reception…
Lynn Winsor, BVM was honored by the Arizona Interscholastic Association with a Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual Champions Awards Luncheon on Monday, May 21 at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Lynn, who is a Xavier College Prep alumna, joined…
BVMS Elizabeth Avalos and Marilyn (Claudia Mary) Wilson have been working with Catholic Network to End Human Trafficking (CNEHT) of Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County for the past 6 years educating in parishes, schools and community groups, and advocating…
On Thursday, May 10 the Sisters of Charity, BVM will participate in a 24-hour online giving event! Your donation will help provide new park benches at Mount Carmel to replace ones that are 50 years old. Replacing the unsafe benches…
During the Campaign for a #WelcomingIL, Rose Mary Meyer, BVM along with state senators, a team of representatives, and sponsors stood in support of three bills that were passed out of the Illinois legislature on May 30: The Voices…
May 11 Postville Anniversary Raid Summons: Sr. Mary McCauley: “At this very moment it is the people affected by these raids that are summoning us.” Read article from Des Moines Register: 10 years after the Postville raid that grabbed up…
Five tri-state area religious congregations are sponsoring the showing of the film “Invisible Hands” at the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival April 26–29, 2018, in Dubuque, Iowa. The documentary exposes child labor and child trafficking within the supply chains of…
Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, Ph.D., is one of the 2018 inductees into the Irish American Hall of Fame (IAHF), chosen in the category of education. The Hall of Fame was created to pay tribute to exemplary Americans of Irish heritage…