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by Archivist Jennifer Head BVM Center News, September 2013 Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, BVM was one of the first women to receive a PhD in computer science, which she received from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. She was the…
by Terese Shinners, BVM Winter 2020, issue of Salt This year, there will be a dramatic shift in the trajectory of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary story. A new senior living community attached to the Mount…
Mary Frances Clarke, foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was a quiet woman of faith and resolve who possessed an adventurous pioneering spirit. At the invitation of Bishop Mathias Loras, she and four other…
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…
by Lois Dolphin, BVM BVM Center News, April 2001 Two recent newspaper columns by African American columnists have caused me to reexamine my own tendency to think in stereotypical patterns. Leonard Pitts, writing about the latest school shootings, wondered about…
by Carol Frances Jegen, BVM BVM Center News, November 2002 Growing up in the city of Chicago meant developing a gradual awareness of racism. I will always be grateful to my dear mother who saw to it that I had a…
BVM Leoline Sommer (center) was the only woman religious to march the entire way from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. BVM Center News, March 2015 By Archivist Jennifer Head As the United States commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Selma…
“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…
Joining in the festivities in Chicago for the Footsteps of St. Ignatius of Loyola Award are (back row, l. to r.) Daniel Moreno, BVMs Carol (Ann Clara) Spiegel, Margaret “Peggy” (St. Cabrini) Geraghty, Mary Fran (Virginia Mary) McLaughlin, Saskia Alquinga…