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"The growth and decline of the population of Catholic nuns cross-nationally, 1960-1990: A case of secularization as social structural change." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1996): 171-183. JSTOR 1387084; Fialka, John J. Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America (New York: St. Martin Press, 2003), popular journalism.
In 1885, Siedliska and eleven sisters traveled to the United States, where they had been invited to minister to the needs of Polish immigrants in Chicago. [22] The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Peoria was founded in 1877 by Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria, and M. Frances Krasse from a local community of the Sisters ...
Sisters of Saint Anne; Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth; Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart; Congregation of the Sisters of St. Ann; Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel; Sisters of the Child Jesus; Sisters of the Holy Cross; Sisters of the Holy Faith; Sisters of the Holy Family of Helmet; Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed ...
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago is a Roman Catholic Benedictine congregation of women. It was founded in 1861 by three sisters of the Benedictine congregation of Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania, who came to Chicago to teach the German-speaking children of St. Joseph's parish. They became an independent congregation in 1872.
Horan, 59, felt a calling to teach while attending Catholic schools in Pottstown, where nuns from many different religious orders taught classes and stressed the importance of education.
Teaching orders may operate their own institutions, from primary school through the university level, provide staff to diocesan or other Catholic schools, or otherwise contribute to educational ministries. Such teaching orders include the following: Apostolic Carmel Sisters (Congregation of the Apostolic Carmel) [1]
In 1867 Jesuit priest Arnold Damen invited the sisters to open a school at Holy Family in Chicago. [5] The BVMs opened a number of schools throughout the city, including St. Mary’s [6] and Immaculata High Schools. In 1885, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, formerly a diocesan community, became a pontifical congregation. [7]
The motto of the order is “In Oblation to the Lord”. Currently, the number of sisters worldwide is close to 120, with thirteen of their twenty convents located in Mexico. In the United States, the sisters, numbering around 22, can be found in the archdioceses of Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. [1] [2]