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The Covid-19 Pandemic And Homelessness: Depaul International Responds, J. Patrick Murphy C.M., Ph.D.
The Covid-19 Pandemic And Homelessness: Depaul International Responds, J. Patrick Murphy C.M., Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
A member of the Vincentian Family, the nonprofit Depaul International serves people who are homeless throughout Europe and the US, a mission which became much more difficult during the COVID-19 pandemic. After giving some of the organization’s history, J. Patrick Murphy describes the challenges that staff and service users faced and how both groups (and donors) responded in extraordinary ways. He offers specific stories from different countries that illustrate how “staff shared common Vincentian values, provided leadership, increased communication, and shared resources and best practices across boundaries.” Depaul International members were asked what Vincent de Paul would say of their …
Critical Perspectives On Our Current Moment: An Experiment In Teaching For 2020, Jane Eva Baxter Ph.D., Sarah Brown, Jenicel Carmona, Val Carnes, Zoe Espinosa, Randall Honold Ph.D., Cary Robbins, George Slad, Margaret Storey Ph.D.
Critical Perspectives On Our Current Moment: An Experiment In Teaching For 2020, Jane Eva Baxter Ph.D., Sarah Brown, Jenicel Carmona, Val Carnes, Zoe Espinosa, Randall Honold Ph.D., Cary Robbins, George Slad, Margaret Storey Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
During the summer of 2020, the DePaul College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (LAS) offered twenty-two incoming students a special interdisciplinary online course, giving them the opportunity to learn and reflect on the crises of 2020 with faculty, staff, and one another. This article’s authors (who are the class’s faculty and students) describe the construction and execution of this course and reflect on the experience. Course topics included “the social contract; equity and justice; historical, cultural, and artistic responses to upheaval; global interconnections; and the way forward.” The course fulfilled DePaul’s mission to help students “engage questions of intellect …
Mass Incarceration, Covid-19, And Race As Exposure To Early Death, Traci Schlesinger Ph.D.
Mass Incarceration, Covid-19, And Race As Exposure To Early Death, Traci Schlesinger Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
A majority of the largest, single-site outbreaks of COVID-19 infections in the United States have been in prisons and jails since the beginning of the pandemic. These outbreaks threaten the lives and well-being of incarcerated people, correctional staff, and people who live in the communities to which incarcerated people return. This study employs both linear and logistic multivariate regression models to examine data from the UCLA’s COVID Prison Data Project, IPUMS CPS, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Prison Policy Initiative to better understand the facility, county, and state-level predictors of COVID-19 infections and deaths in correctional facilities. …
Pa, Ma, And Fa: Private Lives Of Nineteenth-Century American Vincentians, John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.
Pa, Ma, And Fa: Private Lives Of Nineteenth-Century American Vincentians, John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
John Rybolt summarizes the correspondence written by nine Vincentians to members of the prominent Willcox family of Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania. As Rybolt explains, “These letters offer probably the only surviving glimpse of the private lives and thoughts of American Vincentians in the mid-nineteenth century.” The Vincentians and the Willcoxes were close: the Vincentians called their main correspondent, Mary Willcox, Ma and her husband Pa. One of the Vincentians referred to himself as Fa. The priests helped Ma with her spiritual development, and she and her family were surrogates for the families the Vincentians had left behind in Europe. All the …
Bishop John Timon, C.M., Sisters Of Charity Hospital, And The Cholera Epidemic Of 1849, Dennis Castillo Ph.D.
Bishop John Timon, C.M., Sisters Of Charity Hospital, And The Cholera Epidemic Of 1849, Dennis Castillo Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
When Bishop John Timon arrived in Buffalo, New York, he saw an urgent need for a hospital, especially because the city had a large population of immigrants and other working poor who could not afford medical care. The attempts of some Buffalo physicians to establish a hospital had been staunchly opposed by their colleagues for seven years. Bishop Timon and the Sisters of Charity were able to start their hospital in three months. Bishop Timon chose the sisters for their health care experience and because many of the sisters were immigrants themselves, which would put their patients at ease. The …
“What Must Be Done?”: Vincentian Teacher Preparation In The 21st Century", Christopher Worthman Ph.D.
“What Must Be Done?”: Vincentian Teacher Preparation In The 21st Century", Christopher Worthman Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Christopher Worthman explores the defining characteristics of pre-K through 12th grade Vincentian teacher preparation and how it can ready teachers, regardless of their faith, to teach all student populations in all schools. He explains how the American preoccupation with accountability and standardization in schools is a social justice issue. To discern principles of Vincentian preparation, he uses the work of modern Vincentian scholars and draws on examples from the educational efforts of Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac, Marguerite Naseau, Frederic Ozanam, and Elizabeth Seton. Worthman identifies three principles: Lucan spirituality, a sense of immediacy, and affective and effective …
Daughters Of Charity Recall The 1871 Chicago Fire: 'It Traveled Like Lightning.', Betty Ann Mcneil D.C.
Daughters Of Charity Recall The 1871 Chicago Fire: 'It Traveled Like Lightning.', Betty Ann Mcneil D.C.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Accounts of the Chicago Fire are presented here from two Daughters of Charity who witnessed it, Sister Angeline Carrigan and Sister Walburga Gehring. At the time of the fire, the Daughters had three schools, a mission for social services, an existing hospital, and another hospital under construction in the city. They lost a school and the social services mission (of which Sister Carrigan was sister servant) in the disaster. After the fire, they cared for poor persons of the burned districts in their hospital and in the hospital established by the city’s Relief Committee. Sister Gehring was in charge of …
Sister Justina Segale And The New Woman: Tradition And Change In The Progressive Era, M. Christine Anderson Ph.D.
Sister Justina Segale And The New Woman: Tradition And Change In The Progressive Era, M. Christine Anderson Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
M. Christine Anderson discusses the usefulness of Justina Segale’s journal as a tool to teach undergraduates about women’s changing roles in the early twentieth century. Examples from the journal are cited. Similarities and differences between Segale and the “new woman” are discussed. While women’s entrance into the professions of teaching, nursing, and social work is often held up as a new development of the Progressive era, Catholic women religious had long been trained for these occupations. In her social service and educational capacities, Segale illustrates the complexity of women’s roles in this era. Anderson contrasts Segale’s experience and perspective working …
Sister Justina Segale And Americanization: The Making Of Catholic Italian Americans, Mary Beth Fraser Connolly Ph.D.
Sister Justina Segale And Americanization: The Making Of Catholic Italian Americans, Mary Beth Fraser Connolly Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Justina Segale was a Sister of Charity who founded the Santa Maria Institute in Cincinnati. Her primary work was among the Italian immigrants there, and her perspective on Americanization was different from others prevalent at the time. In her view, it was essential to instruct Catholics in their faith in order for them to be good citizens. Indeed, “preserving the faith took precedence” over Americanization. She also did not emphasize assimilation but instead encouraged immigrants to take pride in their Italian heritage. Her Americanization efforts are described. The article also discusses the pressure on immigrants to become citizens and join …
Sister Justina Segale, S.C. And The Work Of The Santa Maria Settlement House, Judith Metz S.C. Ph.D.
Sister Justina Segale, S.C. And The Work Of The Santa Maria Settlement House, Judith Metz S.C. Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
In 1897, Sisters of Charity and siblings Justina and Blandina Segale began planning what became known as the Santa Maria Educational and Industrial Home. The institution began with general and religious education among poor Italian immigrants in Cincinnati. Justina Segale was particularly concerned with religious instruction among the children, and she strove to keep them out of Protestant schools. Santa Maria’s many other works are profiled, with special attention given to their planning and the support they received from the diocese, other religious communities, and the laity. The role of the sisters’ spirituality in the motivation for their work is …
Reflections From The Road: Vincentian Hospitality Principles In Healthcare Education For The Indigent, John M. Conry Pharm.D., Bcps, Aahivp
Reflections From The Road: Vincentian Hospitality Principles In Healthcare Education For The Indigent, John M. Conry Pharm.D., Bcps, Aahivp
Vincentian Heritage Journal
John Conry discusses Vincentian health care history and principles and addresses inequities in health care, particularly in the United States. He focuses on the challenges that persons who are homeless face in managing chronic conditions and obtaining preventive care. A pharmacist and an educator at St. John’s University, Conry explains his work and that of his students with Project Renewal. Among other services, Project Renewal maintains five MedVans, traveling state-of-the-art clinics that work specifically with the homeless in New York. Although it does not have a spiritual component, Project Renewal provides holistic care, exemplifying hospitality and other Vincentian values. Conry …
You Were Told To Love The Immigrant, But What If The Story Never Happened? Hospitality And United States Immigration Law, Craig B. Mousin
You Were Told To Love The Immigrant, But What If The Story Never Happened? Hospitality And United States Immigration Law, Craig B. Mousin
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The biblical narrative served as an inspiration in creating the government of the United States and grounds Christian ethics. People of faith must decide how to interpret and live out the narrative in the present day. The Bible, which is full of stories about exile, should therefore shape our response to immigration. Craig Mousin examines what the Bible says about the treatment of immigrants and applies current immigration law to imagined cases of biblical figures. All of them, including Jesus, would have been denied entry, deported, or forced to live as undocumented immigrants. Mousin then situates immigration within the context …
The Future Of The Vincentian Charism In The United States: Challenges, Trends, And Opportunities, Scott Kelley Ph.D., Jessica Werner Ph.D.
The Future Of The Vincentian Charism In The United States: Challenges, Trends, And Opportunities, Scott Kelley Ph.D., Jessica Werner Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Membership in the Vincentian Family is declining, which raises the question of how the Vincentian charism will continue in the United States. Scott Kelley and Jessica Werner identify characteristics of new “institutional forms” necessary to carry the mission forward. They see great potential in the people they call unaffiliated lay Vincentians (ULVs). Although these young adults have no formal relationship with the Vincentian Family, ULVs are Vincentian because they “have been formed in and continue to self-identify with the Vincentian mission in profound ways.” ULVs were surveyed and interviewed to understand their spirituality and religiosity, how the Vincentian mission affects …
Pictures From The Past: Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio, Judith Metz S.C.
Pictures From The Past: Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio, Judith Metz S.C.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The history of the motherhouse and campus of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati is described. Twenty-five images accompany the text.
The Era Of Boundlessness At St. Mary’S Of The Barrens, 1818-1843: A Brief Historical Analysis, Richard J. Janet Ph.D.
The Era Of Boundlessness At St. Mary’S Of The Barrens, 1818-1843: A Brief Historical Analysis, Richard J. Janet Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Richard Janet analyzes the early history of Saint Mary’s of the Barrens according to the historian Philip Gleason’s view of the development of American Catholicism. Gleason sees the arc of American Catholicism as moving from a period of “boundlessness,” in which institutions engaged in all types of works, to the mid-nineteenth-century period of “consolidation,” in which leaders tried to manage growth in a way that would stabilize those institutions. Gleason’s thesis is discussed in detail. The work of Felix De Andreis, Joseph Rosati, and John Timon is examined. They faced many problems inherent in maintaining a Vincentian community while ministering …
Pictures From The Past: Saint Vincent’S College, Los Angeles, Stafford Poole C.M.
Pictures From The Past: Saint Vincent’S College, Los Angeles, Stafford Poole C.M.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The history of Saint Vincent’s College is recounted with a special focus on its problems with local bishops and the reasons leading to its closure. Eighteen images are included.
Demographics Of Entrants: Sisters Of Charity Of St. Joseph’S, 1809–1849 And Daughters Of Charity, Province Of The United States, 1850–1909, Betty Ann Mcneil D.C.
Demographics Of Entrants: Sisters Of Charity Of St. Joseph’S, 1809–1849 And Daughters Of Charity, Province Of The United States, 1850–1909, Betty Ann Mcneil D.C.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
A project began in 2002 to develop a database tracking all the admissions to the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph’s (1809–1849) and the Daughters of Charity (1850–1909) in the United States. This article explains how the project was conducted, what sources were used, and what the study’s major findings were. The database encompassed many different demographics: family backgrounds, birthplaces, and age of entrants, their marital and/or convert status, their years of entrance, and whether they had relatives in the community. Military service, withdrawals, transfers, separations, and burial places were also tracked.
Sisters And Smallpox: The Daughters Of Charity As Advocates For The Sick Poor In Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles, Kristine Ashton Gunnell Ph.D.
Sisters And Smallpox: The Daughters Of Charity As Advocates For The Sick Poor In Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles, Kristine Ashton Gunnell Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The Daughters of Charity were “the key provider of social service in [Los Angeles] before 1880,” opening southern California’s first hospital in 1858. They served anyone, regardless of religion and brought different religious and cultural groups together to help people who were sick. During the smallpox epidemics from the 1860s through the 1880s, the Daughters partnered with officials of Los Angeles to treat the poor. Kristine Gunnell explains how the desire to cut costs, theories of containing disease, and racial and class biases led to the city’s initially inhumane treatment of poor patients. Acting as advocates for the poor, the …
Pictures From The Past: The First University Of Dallas, Stafford Poole C.M.
Pictures From The Past: The First University Of Dallas, Stafford Poole C.M.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The history of the first University of Dallas, and particularly its financial and administrative problems, is recounted. It almost led to the ruin of the Western Province. Twenty images accompany the text.
Frédéric Ozanam―Beneficent Deserter: Mediating The Chasm Of Income Inequality Through Liberty, Equality, And Fraternity, Reverend Craig B. Mousin
Frédéric Ozanam―Beneficent Deserter: Mediating The Chasm Of Income Inequality Through Liberty, Equality, And Fraternity, Reverend Craig B. Mousin
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Frederic Ozanam demonstrated how liberty, equality, and fraternity were Christian principles whose application was to safeguard the rights of poor persons and lessen the tremendous gap between rich and poor. He feared violent class warfare and insisted that Christians act as nonviolent mediators for as long as they could to prevent it from happening or at least ensure less disastrous results. If forced to take sides, Christians were to choose the poor, as the Gospel does. He urged charitable, pastoral, and civic engagement with the working poor, an often overlooked group. He campaigned for the Church and France to embrace …
Faith, Charity, Justice, And Civic Learning: The Lessons And Legacy Of Frédéric Ozanam, Raymond L. Sickinger Ph.D.
Faith, Charity, Justice, And Civic Learning: The Lessons And Legacy Of Frédéric Ozanam, Raymond L. Sickinger Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Frederic Ozanam’s philosophy and work has much to offer those interested in community service and service learning. Thinkers such as John Dewey and Jane Addams believed that acts of charity allowed the rich to judge the poor and to excuse themselves from greater social responsibility. Charity and social justice were therefore mutually exclusive. In contrast, Ozanam’s definition of Christian charity involved treating poor persons as equals to increase social engagement and transform all of society. Ultimately, all classes were to come together with the same social goals of “peace, order, and happiness.” With the advice of those working in the …
What Would Vincent Study Abroad? Option For The Poor And Systemic Change For The Development Of Socially Responsible Leaders, Marco Tavanti Ph.D., Heather Evans M.S.
What Would Vincent Study Abroad? Option For The Poor And Systemic Change For The Development Of Socially Responsible Leaders, Marco Tavanti Ph.D., Heather Evans M.S.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The effectiveness of the DePaul University School of Public Service Chiapas Program is evaluated according to “Vincentian values of experiential learning, systemic change, and the option for the poor.” Including students’ own words, the article summarizes what participants learn as they work directly with poor persons, their leaders, indigenous organizations, local NGOs, and Mexican academic institutions in Chiapas. As Marco Tavanti and Heather Evans write, the program’s goal “is not only to increase knowledge and skills but to challenge and transform cultural attitudes, learn from context, and engage in professional collaboration and dialogues for social change.” The value of system …
Poverty In New Orleans: Before And After Katrina, Gloria Simo Ph.D.
Poverty In New Orleans: Before And After Katrina, Gloria Simo Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
This article explores poverty in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina and the factors which contributed to poor persons being the most affected by the storm. Both the causes and results of poverty are investigated to see how they can be alleviated as New Orleans recovers from Katrina. The Tulane/Canal neighborhood is used as a case study for this. Faculty, staff, and students from the School of Public Service and the Chaddick Institute of Metropolitan Development at DePaul University were sent there to assist with recovery efforts in accordance with the Vincentian mission. Their work is described and its effectiveness is …
Vincentian Education: A Survey Of Its History, John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.
Vincentian Education: A Survey Of Its History, John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
From its beginning, the Congregation has worked in education, although until recently this was seen to conflict with its primary focus on missions. However, its involvement began with Vincent de Paul’s interest in instructing poor persons in religion. Vincent was also concerned with the reform of the clergy, so the Congregation became heavily committed to seminaries. Seminaries became especially important to the rebuilding of the French church after the Revolution. After the Jesuits’ suppression, the Vincentians took over many of their secondary schools and replaced the Jesuits at universities. In many international missions, the Vincentians intended to start seminaries but …
Meeting Saint Vincent's Challenge In Providing Assistance To The Foreign-Born Poor: Applying The Lessons To The Asylum And Immigration Law Clinic, Sioban Albiol J.D.
Meeting Saint Vincent's Challenge In Providing Assistance To The Foreign-Born Poor: Applying The Lessons To The Asylum And Immigration Law Clinic, Sioban Albiol J.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic of DePaul College of Law furthers Vincent de Paul’s mission of caring for poor persons. It extends the protection of the law to low-income immigrants and asylum seekers by giving them access to legal advice that they so often lack. Background on US immigration law and its punitive effects on the poor is provided. Catholic social teaching with regard to immigration is summarized. Vincent de Paul was a migrant himself, and his approach to missions and other works indicates his special concern for foreigners. An important comparison is made between Vincent’s extension of access …
Elizabeth Bayley Seton, Teacher: A Legacy Of Charity Education, Alice Ann M. O'Neill S.C., Ph.D.
Elizabeth Bayley Seton, Teacher: A Legacy Of Charity Education, Alice Ann M. O'Neill S.C., Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Elizabeth Seton was a teacher for almost her entire life. A major portion of her experience as a teacher came as she instructed her own children. The combination of roles as mother and teacher expanded as she opened St. Joseph’s Academy in Emmitsburg, where she acted as a mother to her students and was the religious mother of the Sisters of Charity. St. Joseph’s admitted poor and wealthy girls; although they were not formally admitted, free and enslaved black students also received some education there. The curricula and organization of the school are described. Long quotations from Elizabeth’s writings offer …
Memoir Of Sister Cecilia O'Conway: Sisters Of Charity Of St. Joseph's, Betty Ann Mcneil D.C.
Memoir Of Sister Cecilia O'Conway: Sisters Of Charity Of St. Joseph's, Betty Ann Mcneil D.C.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
Cecilia O’Conway was the first candidate for the Sisters of Charity. Her chronology of the community’s history is one of the earliest such sources we have. It covers the time period from 1805 to 1815, with entries missing for 1811, 1813, and 1814. Background on O’Conway is given, some of which comes from Elizabeth Seton’s letters; O’Conway’s extensive role in the community is also described. Her memoir is supplemented with clarifications and other information from written accounts by Rose White and Margaret George, two other early sisters. O’Conway ultimately left the community for reasons that are recounted, but she retained …
Catherine Josephine Seton And The New York Mercy Experience, Ann M. Gallagher R.S.M.
Catherine Josephine Seton And The New York Mercy Experience, Ann M. Gallagher R.S.M.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The life of Elizabeth Seton’s daughter Catherine is recounted. Catherine studied and taught at Emmitsburg, nursed her mother through her final illness, and traveled throughout the eastern United States as well as Europe. She knew many important people, especially members of the American Catholic hierarchy. As the first New York Sister of Mercy with a career that spanned forty-five years, she was vital to that community’s American establishment. She engaged in a wide variety of important work, especially extensive ministry in the prisons of New York. Bishop John Hughes said of her, “If ever [a] daughter rivaled the sanctity of …
The Sisters Of Charity In Vincennes, Indiana, Ellin M. Kelly Ph.D.
The Sisters Of Charity In Vincennes, Indiana, Ellin M. Kelly Ph.D.
Vincentian Heritage Journal
The history of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and those from Emmitsburg in Vincennes, Indiana, is described. The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth opened a school for girls there in 1813. They eventually had problems staffing it, and the Sisters of Charity from Emmitsburg were asked to help, which they did from about 1838 to 1843. Details about the proposed union between the Nazareth and Emmitsburg communities and the persistent staffing problems for the school are given. Simon Gabriel Brute became the bishop of Vincennes in 1834 and played a major role in bringing the Emmitsburg sisters to the …
Handing On The Charism: Reporting On An Oral History Project, Kathleen Flanagan S.C., Mary Ellen Gleason S.C., Carole Garibaldi Rogers
Handing On The Charism: Reporting On An Oral History Project, Kathleen Flanagan S.C., Mary Ellen Gleason S.C., Carole Garibaldi Rogers
Vincentian Heritage Journal
“Handing on the Charism,” part of a larger oral history project, was a series of interviews conducted in 2002 and 2003 among the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, their associates, and other women the Sisters helped or influenced. The article gives this New Jersey community’s history, explains the project’s methodology, and provides long excerpts from the interview transcripts. It provides conclusions about how the Sisters’ charism is being passed down as well as recommendations for how to further include the laity in it.