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…
BVM Leoline Sommer (center) was the only woman religious to march the entire way from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Photo by Stephen F. Somerstein Getty Images. BVM Center News, March 2015 By Archivist Jennifer Head As the United States…
“I think as a country, we still don’t admit that racism is one of our biggest problems.” Donard Collins, BVM As they reflect during Black History Month, BVM Sisters who taught in the segregated South say those missions changed their…
In 1993, BVM Rita Benz (second row, far right) walks a mile in the shoes of homeless women during the first Winter Walk. BVMs have participated in the walk ever since. I come all the way from the West Side…
BVMs Carolyn Farrell and Catherine Dunn (third and fourth from left) were recognized as women who have made a difference at the Women's March Jan. 25 in Dubuque, Iowa. Two BVMs were honored and nearly a dozen attended the Dubuque,…
Students at Nuevo Mundo in Guayaquil, Ecuador, celebrate the school's 35th anniversary. One Sunday morning, on the cusp of the first steps toward the dream of BVM Associates Pat McTeague and Sonya Rendón of creating a unique school that would…
. . . it’s cool that the BVM Sisters and their supporters pitched in to help us all out.” — Student John Foli, Assumption High School For 185 years BVM Sisters have been motivated by their Foundress Mary Frances Clarke’s…
Mary Sattgast, BVM (r.) chats with students from Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, Ill., about core values during a visit to Mount Carmel. From being pen pals with fifth graders to discussing leadership with college students, Sisters of Charity…
BVMs Joellen McCarthy, Mary Ellen Meckley, Colleen McGinnity, and Gwen Farry are among the sisters ministering in Chicagoland. Chicagoland Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary will hold a meet and greet Nov. 6 at the Gannon Center…
Diane Maura Broderick, from Poulsbo, Wash., completed the candidate process and was accepted as a BVM associate on Oct. 10. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and raised as part of large farm family. Carola Broderick, BVM (deceased) was…