The building may have changed but the views are the same for BVMs Carol (Conrad Ann) Cook (l.), Nancy (Josephine Mary) McCarthy, Sheila (Mary Trea) O’Brien, and Gwen (Leontia) Farry. Whenever you move into a new place, it takes a…
Mary Ellen Meckley, BVM (near the center wearing a green hat) rallies with the Jane Addams Senior Caucus Care Collective Team at a #RaiseUpIL action. BVM Mary Ellen (Davidette) Meckley so strongly believes that “people need homecare” that she stands…
Marie Greaney, BVM has given blood since she was in the novitiate at Mount Carmel in Dubuque, Iowa. Featured in the Winter 2020 issue of Salt by Margaret “Peggy” Geraghty, BVM Marie (David Therese) Greaney, BVM celebrated her 87th birthday…
Six Clarke University students created a video about Marshallese people living in Dubuque, Iowa, to help address challenges of racism and oppression. “The Forgotten People” video is a result of an inaugural Activism and Values Informed Education Clarke Compass scholarship…
Sandra Rodemyer, BVM accepts a Dowling Distinguished Alumni award in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday. Sandra “Sandy” (St. Philip) Rodemyer, BVM is a 2021 Distinguished Alumni at Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines, Iowa. “It was a good…
THE STORY OF THE ANNUNCIATION GOSPEL: LK 1: 26-38 FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT Mary is the first Christian to follow Christ.”—Edith Stein Adults and children in your household, take time to play with the Christmas crib set. Let each…
BVMs Irene Lukefahr (l.) and Joanne (Joeline) Schneider discuss Getting Out the Vote. Irene brought a letter-writing campaign to the attention of BVMs, and Joanne volunteered to write letters to three people in Michigan telling each one why she's voting…
According to a booklet outlining core values of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, education is the “process of calling forth the gift and potential of ourselves and others.” In explaining the core values to Clarke University…
The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary are partners in a growing group taking a Catholic Impact Investing Pledge. Recently 15 new partners signed on to the pledge, a public commitment of Catholic investors to make a collective…
As we mark the death of over 100,000 people in the U.S. from COVID-19, 504 of those being people in the State of Iowa, 18 of those deaths in the County of Dubuque, and 550 deaths being people in Wisconsin…