Vocation Day

Jul 9, 2007 | Sisters News

BY SISTER LUCY KEARNEY Regi-Notre Dame Catholic High School took advantage of the Feast of St. Marguerite Bourgeois to host a Vocation Day. As we arrived at the school Grade 11 students were assigned to greet the invited guests, and I must add, made us feel very...

Activist/Street Nurse at Vigil

Jul 9, 2007 | Friday Silent Vigil, Justice

A high profile social activist joined other vigil-keepers at the weekly silent vigil at Kingston’s City Hall on Friday May 18, 2007. Raised in Kingston, nurse Cathy Crowe specializes in advocacy for the homeless in Canada. She has won fame as a street nurse working...

Farewell Faithful Vigil Keeper

Jul 9, 2007 | Friday Silent Vigil, Justice

BY SISTER PEGGY FLANAGAN As I recall, Jesus of Nazareth had a soft spot in his heart for fishermen. Perhaps he still does. Oliver Gerald Doyle, who died on the second of May, was a follower of Jesus, but not just because he loved to go fishing. Oliver also took...

Poverty Task Force

Jul 8, 2007 | Justice

General Superior elect Sr. Pauline Lally spoke during the Mayor’s Task Force on Poverty held in Kingston April 30, 2007. The speech is reprinted here. In the 19th century the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul set about working on behalf of the orphaned, the...

Sister Marian McCallum

Jul 5, 2007 | Obituaries

Sister Marian McCallum was born in Montreal on May 11, 1948 and attended St. Malachy’s School and Marymount High School. Following her graduation, she entered the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul on September 8, 1965. After graduating from the Ottawa...