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Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary chose leadership for the next four years at a virtual Congregational Assembly June 22–27. LaDonna Manternach, BVM will be president of the congregation. Second vice president since 2016, she is a graduate…
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…
BVM Carola Broderick (l.) arm wrestles with her nephew Paul Duwelius, while his sister Michele plays cards with BVM Mary Ann (Florence) Palumbo during a visit to Des Moines. by Mary Glindinning A multigenerational devotion to the Sisters of Charity…
Parishioners at St. James Parish on Wabash in Chicago replaced folding chairs with ones from the Marian Hall Chapel donated by BVMs. “Have a seat” is a hospitable welcome. Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary were able to…
Kitty Lawlor, BVM autographs one of the books she wrote about BVM Foundress Mary Frances Clarke's letters. by Mary Glindinning The history of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the people and places they served intertwine…
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…
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary will join others in wearing orange Saturday, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, in memory of those killed in shootings. In the United States in 2020, guns killed 44,000 people; nearly 20,000 were…
From the August 2017 BVM Center News By Jennifer Head, Archivist The Mount Carmel Archives recently acquired a treasure from Our Lady of Angels Academy in Clinton, Iowa, founded by the BVMs in 1872. It is a book containing pressed…
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.…
Featured in the winter 2021 issue of Salt magazine. by Mary Glindinning Seeing her family’s struggle with illness and overcoming her own health issues convinced Lisette Aracely Movano Quimis that she wanted to be a nurse, because she wants to help…