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A Fitting Response: The History of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis (2 vol. 1992) Quinonez, Lora, and Mary Daniel Turner. The Transformation of American Catholic Sisters (1993) excerpt and text search; Schneider, Mary L. "American Sisters and the Roots of Change: the 1950s." US Catholic Historian (1988): 55-72. JSTOR ...
Nuns of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (5 P) Franciscan nuns (2 C, 25 P) H. Hieronymite nuns (2 P) L. Sisters of Loreto (1 C, 8 P) Sisters of Loretto (1 C, 13 P) M.
In New York City, in 1873, James Boyce (1826–1876) invited the Ursuline nuns to found a girls' academy in St. Teresa's parish on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The new school, called St. Teresa's Ursuline Academy, located at 137 Henry Street, was incorporated in 1881 and as of 1891 had a faculty of five sisters teaching 62 pupils. [25]
Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order (34 C, 2 P) * Leaders of Catholic female orders and societies (1 C, 9 P) + Monasteries of secular canonesses (6 P) A.
Some grandparents of today's Blessed Sacrament students can remember when nuns staffed every Erie Catholic school, doling out homework, prayers and discipline in equal measures.
Today, the sisters number 337 and the motherhouse is located in Sparkill, New York. [23] Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Springs - This is a new congregation founded in 2009 with members from the Dominican Sisters of Columbus. The Sisters staff St. Vincent Ferrer High School in Manhattan, and have a convent in Ossining.
Erie County, Pennsylvania is a swing county within a swing state, making it a key community to watch this Election Day
A religious order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order's dependent communities. An exception is the Order of Saint Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of independent houses, meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the ...