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A Chance Meeting Becomes a Life-long Connection Joe O’Hare met the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary over 50 years ago while visiting Chicago. During his stay, he took the opportunity to visit some of the city’s parochial…
As the Terrace Apartments at Mount Carmel Bluffs near completion and BVMs across the country and the world prepare to come home to Dubuque, Iowa, I’d like to share a brief history of how sisters moved “there” to eventually return…
Photo: Matthew Paul D'Agostino / Dagfoto.com The Sisters of Charity, BVM are one of 62 faith-based organizations who signed onto a letter sent to members of Congress calling on legislators to dramatically cut militarized spending, reinvest in the wellbeing of…
Xavier junior, Jayne Jones and BVM Joan Fitzgerald. Photo credit: Lisa Zuba Pope Francis has awarded Sister Joan Fitzgerald, BVM, president of Xavier College Preparatory, the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal, (“For Church and Pope”) one of the highest honors…
BVM Leadership has signed onto the statement from DignityUSA. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) website reports that transgender people face discrimination obtaining accurate identification documents such as driver’s licenses and passports. One in 5 trans people report being refused…
BVM “Sister Jean” Dolores Schmidt’s memoir, Wake Up With Purpose! What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years was released by Harper Select on Feb. 28, 2023, proceeding the “March Madness” NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Known to millions as simply…
BVMs Karen Conover (l.), Kate (Joseph Marie) Hendel, Carol Marie (Joseph Louis) Baum, Kathryn (John Laurian) Lawlor, Mira Mosle, Diane (Malia) Rapozo, Maureen Patrice Fury, Gwen (Leontia) Farry, Lois Dolphin, LaDonna Manternach, Congregational Secretary Ann Sweeney, and BVMs Jean (Allan)…
Louise Levandowski, BVM crotchets prayer shawls for human trafficking survivors and the homebound. While living in Davenport, Iowa, BVM Louise (Laurina) Levandowski joined a prayer shawl ministry group that was starting at St. Paul the Apostle Parish. After moving to…
Elizabeth Avalos, BVM has recommended both of the scholarship recipients featured in this edition of Salt. Elizabeth has supported Maria C. Ramirez Medrano in her goals of earning her medical assistant certificate and Maria Lorena Sanchez in her pursuit of…
Teachers Become Students What is this? Another flyer in our mailbox! Inviting us to grow?! I’m already 85 years old! How much more can I grow? My mind began to toss around the words on the invitation: contemplative, ecology, spirituality, justice,…