Father James G. Burke, former pastor in Brookline, Westwood, and Lexington
Father James G. Burke was granted senior priest/retirement status on June 1, 2024. From his ordination on May 21, 1977, at Holy Cross Cathedral by Humberto...
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Father Richard M. Erikson, former vicar general, pastor, retired Air Force chaplain
Born in Boston on Oct. 24, 1958, Father Richard M. Erikson was raised in Watertown and attended and graduated from its public schools. He is one of the...
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Father Joseph M. Hennessey, pastor in Kingston and Halifax, canon lawyer
Merrimack Regional Bishop Robert F. Hennessey helps make the distinction among the three Hennessey priests -- "the young one, Father Daniel Hennessey,...
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Father James F. Hickey, longtime pastor in Rockland, named senior priest
A Boston native, born in the Hub on July 4, 1942, Father James F. Hickey was raised in St. Ann Parish, Dorchester. He was a son of the late Daniel and...
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Father Stephen J. Linehan, longtime Navy chaplain and former Westwood pastor
Cambridge native Father Stephen J. Linehan was granted senior priest retirement status effective June 1, 2024. One of the five children of the late Charles...
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Father Linus Mendis named senior priest
A native of Sri Lanka, where he was born in Kurunegala on Oct. 27, 1945, he is a son of the late Charles and Agnes (Tissera) Mendis; he has three sisters:...
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Father Joseph Diem Van Nguyen, now a senior priest
Father Nguyen, of Father Joe as he prefers, was born in Ha Bac, Vietnam, on March 27, 1952, a son of Van Joseph and Mieu Thi Mary (Vu) Ngyuen. Dai, Dang,...
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Father Stephen B. Rock, Reading pastor and Navy chaplain, named senior priest
From Lawrence to Reading is not too far, maybe 14 miles; Lawrence native and recently retired Christ the King Parish, Reading's pastor, Father Stephen...
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Father Frank J. Silva, pastor, vocation director, seminary faculty
Priests do not usually like to tout their resumes, so sometimes it's left to others to do it for them. This is all the easier in the case of Father...
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Father John L. Sullivan, Canton pastor, St. John Seminary faculty
One of the 10 children of the late John and Mary (Healy) Sullivan, Father John L. Sullivan was born in Boston on May 10, 1948, and raised in the Hub's...
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Father Francis Daly on his Regina Cleri home
This past June, Regina Cleri, Clergy Trust's home for senior diocesan priests, celebrated its 60th anniversary. At the celebration, current resident,...
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Pope meets senior priests, encourages dialogue with young clergy
Pope Francis, who was ordained to the priesthood 54 years ago, encouraged senior priests in the Diocese of Rome to be "witnesses of memory," sharing their...
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The Witness of Holy Senior Priests
Among the heroes in the Church today are holy senior priests who have persevered in their vocation for many years and continue to serve God and others...
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Reconnecting with spiritual heritage: An invitation to Boston's faithful
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center in West Hartford, Connecticut, is now the home of several religious statues that once graced St. Gabriel's Monastery...
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Upcoming Catholic Charismatic Healing Masses
Focusing on the promise of eternal life brings grieving parents what they need most . . . HOPE. The death of a child divides a parent's life into...
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Bethany Center welcomes you
Getting away can be very good for the soul. Getting away to Florida can be even better. Bethany Center was the idea of our former Bishop Robert N. Lynch....
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Retreats at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts
St. Joseph's Abbey is a monastic community of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. We are a contemplative order,...
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Upcoming Catholic Charismatic Healing Masses
Father John Baptist Bashobora is a world-renowned Catholic priest from Uganda, recognized for his Charismatic and Healing Ministry. Affectionately known...
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Giving joyful witness to God's love: A word from Sister Margaret Mary Fitzpatrick, SC, congregational leader
175 years, at first thought, seem like a long time. Yet a number of our Sisters living today have lived more than half of this time -- an amazing thought...
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Giving joyful witness to God's love: Our mission -- then and now
Everyone loves a good story. In the pages that follow, you will be reading countless good stories of Sisters of Charity who responded to the needs of the...
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Faith, family, and religious life
Ah, we well remember life in the early families in Boston when Catholic families loved to mention "My daughter, the nun." "My son, the priest." And what...
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The path of education
The path of education has taken the Sisters of Charity in many directions throughout our years in the archdiocese; from the late 1800s into the 2000s,...
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Sister Mary Corona MacDonald, SC
Animation ... Imagination ... Inspiration ... Expectation ... Jubilation ... These were just a few words her students used to describe Sister Mary Corona...
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WAITT House
''Oh, Happy Day" was the music one could almost hear as WAITT House prepared to begin its 2016 graduation ceremony! Twelve adults born in the US,...
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St. Patrick School, Roxbury
In 1887, Father Joseph Gallagher, the pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Roxbury, asked the Congregation for Sisters to staff his school. Seven Sisters responded...
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Sister Ruth Anne Brighton, SC
Sister Ruth Anne's official title was therapeutic respite provider for handicapped children at the Benda/Bridges Homecare Solutions, and Moore Center....
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Elizabeth Seton Academy
Elizabeth Seton Academy began with the announcement in January of 2003 that Msgr. Ryan Memorial High School (MRM) in Dorchester, MA, would close. This...
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Sister Mary Patricia O'Connor, SC (Sister Mary Luke)
In addition to teaching, from 1952 to 1963, Sister Mary Luke (later known as Sister Mary Patricia O'Connor) taught eighth-grade boys and girls at St....
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Associates of the Sisters of Charity, Halifax
Associates are those women and men who share the charism of the Sisters of Charity, Halifax, and are called by the Spirit of God to recognize this charism...
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Archdiocesan ministry
Elizabeth Seton instructed her daughters to "Be children of the Church." She saw clearly the wider context of the mission beyond the particular works of...
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Sister Evelyn Claire Quinlan, SC
Claire Marie Quinlan was born in Dorchester and entered Mount St. Vincent Postulate in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from St. Margaret's Parish in Dorchester....
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Sister Peggy Dolan, SC
Sister Peggy Dolan (Maura Thomas) admits that she used to be a nervous person. She says it's ironic that, as a social worker at Boston Medical Center,...
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Healing touch of charity
In the section of the Congregation's Constitutions on service, we find the ministry of the Sisters of Charity described as a mandate: to bring the...
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Former members
In the years surrounding the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), religious life was engaged in a period of renewal. This involved both looking back to...
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Sister Cecelia Sacca, SC
How easy it is to tell when someone loves what they are doing! I asked Sister Cecelia Sacca to share a bit about her ministry of prayer with and for others....
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Cor Unum -- St. Patrick Parish, Lawrence
Sisters of Charity, Halifax, have served in St. Patrick Parish since 1906 when the first of the two school buildings opened. Thousands of children's...
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Prison ministry
Presently, Sister Kay Conroy (Shaun Marie) is a volunteer on Sundays for the 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. paraliturgies at Suffolk Correctional Center with...
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Campus ministry
As sisters began to move into new ministries in the 1970s, campus ministry seemed like a perfect extension of what Sisters of Charity had been doing: reaching...
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House of Charity
The Sisters of Charity Federation comprises thirteen congregations of women religious with 1,871 sisters. Impelled by Christ's love and joined together...
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United Nations first Sisters of Charity Federation NGO
''Hey, Lady. Where do you think you're going?" As Sister Marie Elena, appropriately wearing her new photo ID, entered the side door of the...
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Water projects
In 2005, as a congregation, we adopted a corporate stance on water. Since then, we, along with our benefactors, have supported water projects in the Dominican...
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Human trafficking -- Bakhita House
At the 2001 meeting of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG), a major concern was raised about the number of women and children being trafficked,...
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How we came to Wellesley
Father Joseph Gallagher of St. Patrick in Roxbury was the first advocate for establishing, in the Boston area, a private academy, conducted by the Sisters...
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Sister Marie LaBollita, SC
Over a period of 50 plus years, as an educator, pastoral counselor, and spiritual director, working with women from all walks of life, especially those...
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Life at Mount St. Vincent
The Mount St. Vincent campus is home to the Marillac Residence, a retirement community for sisters of three different religious congregations and lay folks...
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Sisters of Charity -- Halifax list of ministries
Education St. Patrick Grammar and High Schools, Roxbury Academy of the Assumption, Wellesley St. Joseph Academy for Boys, Wellesley Elizabeth Seton...
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175 Years -- the celebration!
On Aug. 15, the Sisters of Charity gathered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to remember where we've been, to celebrate the extravagance of God's blessings...
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