Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan could not have foreseen the directions that ministry would be taking in the last minutes before the Millennium: HIV counseling, alcoholism treatment, advocacy for social justice, ESL programs, and other emerging ministries. These efforts have opened up new avenues for expressing the fundamental charism of the Sisters of Charity.

We serve in a wide variety of settings. From Alaska to El Salvador, in Haiti, in classrooms, shelters, corporate board rooms, courts, and operating rooms we are there. The traditional ministry of education has evolved as our urban schools have changed to respond to the needs of new people in an ever-changing environment. Sisters work in sponsored institutions (a college, five academies, five hospitals, and a center for women), and in parishes, schools, hospitals, agencies, and other educational or health care settings.

Teachers, therapists, physicians, nurses, social workers, pastoral associates, and administrators, Sisters of Charity are to be found whenever they have discerned a call to serve others, especially the poor. The Congregation is committed to advocacy for systemic social change, attempting to influence public policy on behalf of justice for racial and ethnic minorities; full participation of women in the Church and in society; delivery of quality health care and social services to the poor and quality educational opportunities for all.










 

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