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Sisters of Mercy is an international community of Roman Catholic women religious vowed to serve people who suffer from poverty, sickness and lack of education with a special concern for women and children. Members take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the evangelical counsels commonly vowed in religious life, and, in addition, vows of service. They continue to participate in the life of the surrounding community. In keeping with their mission of serving the poor and needy, many sisters engage in teaching, medical care, and community programs. The organization is active in lobbying and politics. History The religious institute began when McAuley used an inherited fortune to build a "House of Mercy" in Dublin that provided educational, religious, and social services for poor women and children. The House aroused local opposition, however, it being traditional for nuns rather than lay women to engage in this sort of activity. Eventually the church hierarchy agreed to the formation of a non-cloistered institute, and the sisters became known informally as the "walking nuns" for their ability to care for the poor outside a convent. The house still sits today, as the Mercy International Centre. In 1992, the leaders of the various congregations created the Mercy International Association to foster collaboration and cooperation. The purpose of the Association is to provide support and foster collaboration, organisation and inspiration for the ministries of Sisters of Mercy and their associates.[1] On 12 December 2011, 14 of the 17 independent congregations in Australia and Papua New Guinea of the Sisters of Mercy combined to form a congregation numbering some 920 sisters.[2] Constitution The Sisters of Mercy are constituted as religious and charitable organizations in a number of countries. Mercy International Association is a registered charity in the Republic of Ireland.[3] In the United Kingdom, The Union of the Sisters of Mercy of Great Britain is a registered charity, and in 2006–7 had a gross income of £5.5million.[4] Controversies Main article: Abuse scandal in the Sisters of Mercy On May 20, 2009, the institute was condemned in an Irish government report known as the Ryan Report, the work of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. The Sisters of Mercy were named as the chief among the institutes under whose care girls "endured frequent assaults and humiliation designed to make them feel worthless ... personal and family denigration was widespread".[5] Schools founded or run by Sisters of Mercy Australia Academy of Mary Immaculate, Fitzroy, Victoria All Hallows' School, Brisbane, Queensland Aranmore Catholic College, Leederville, Western Australia Bunbury Catholic College, Bunbury, Western Australia Holy Spirit Primary School, North Ryde, New South Wales Marian Catholic College, Griffith, New South Wales Marist College Eastwood, Eastwood, New South Wales Mercedes College, Adelaide, South Australia Mercedes College, Perth, Western Australia Mercy Catholic College, Chatswood, New South Wales Mercy College, Koondoola, Western Australia Mercy College, Mackay, Queensland Mercy Regional College, Camperdown, Victoria Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney, New South Wales Mount Lilydale Mercy College, Lilydale, Victoria Our Lady of Lourdes, Dardanup, Western Australia Our Lady of Lourdes, Earlwood, New South Wales Our Lady of Mercy College, Heidelberg, Victoria Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta, Parramatta, New South Wales Padua College, Mornington, Victoria St Aloysius' College, Melbourne, Victoria St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Mossman, Queensland St Brigid's College, Lesmurdie, Western Australia St Catherine's Catholic College, Singleton, New South Wales St Columba's School, Ballarat, Victoria St. Josephs College, Mildura, Victoria St Mary's College, Gunnedah, New South Wales St Mary's, Erskineville, Sydney, New South Wales St Mary's North Sydney, Sydney, NSW St Monica's, North Parramatta, Parramatta, New South Wales St Patrick's College, Townsville Queensland St. Patrick's Primary School, Nanango Sacred Heart College, Kyneton, Victoria Sacred Heart College, Geelong, Victoria Santa Maria College, Attadale, Western Australia Star of the Sea School, Adelaide, South Australia Ursula Frayne Catholic College, Victoria Park, Western Australia Belize St. Catherine Academy, Belize City, Belize Ireland Convent of Mercy, Templemore, County Tipperary Carysfort College, Dublin Convent of Mercy, Ballymahon, County Longford Convent of Mercy, Navan, County Meath Convent of Mercy, Templemore, County Tipperary Mary Immaculate College, Limerick Mercy Secondary School, Mounthawk, Tralee, County Kerry Mount Mercy College, Cork City, Cork Mount Saint Michael's Secondary school, County Mayo Our Lady of Mercy Secondary School, Waterford Sacred Heart Secondary School, Tullamore, County Offaly Sancta Maria College, Ballyroan, Dublin St Anne's Technical School, Kilcormac (1932–1965), County Offaly St. Joseph's National School, Tullamore, County Offaly St Joseph's Secondary School, Rochfortbridge, County Westmeath St Leo's College, Carlow St Mary's College, Arklow, County Wicklow St Mary's College Naas, County Kildare St. Mary's Secondary School, Charleville, County Cork St Vincent's Secondary School, Dundalk, County Louth Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh, County Cork Jamaica Convent of Mercy "Alpha" Academy, Kingston St. John Bosco Boys Home, Mandeville New Zealand In 1849 Bishop Pompallier visited St Leo's Convent in Carlow, Ireland, seeking nuns to emigrate; eight left from St Leo's, led by Mother Mary Cecilia. They travelled to New Zealand, learning Māori along the way, establishing the Sisters of Mercy in Auckland as the first female religious community in New Zealand in 1850.[6][7] Carmel College, Milford, Auckland Holy Cross School, Papatoetoe, Auckland[8] Moreau College, Dunedin McAuley High School, Otahuhu, Auckland Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School, Epsom, Auckland Sacred Heart Cathedral School, Thorndon, Wellington St Bernard's School, Wellington St Catherine's College, Wellington St Josephs School, Takapuna, Auckland St Mary's College, Auckland St Mary's College, Christchurch St Mary's College, Wellington St Mary's School, Avondale, Auckland St Mary's in the City Primary School, Christchurch St Mary's Primary School, Gore St Peter's College, Gore St Philomena's College, Dunedin Villa Maria College, Christchurch United Kingdom Broughton Hall High School, Liverpool Maricourt Catholic High School, Maghull Mount Lourdes Grammar School, Enniskillen Our Lady's Abingdon, Abingdon-on-Thames Our Lady's Grammar School, Newry St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy, Sunderland St. Catherine's School, Twickenham St Edward's, Lisson Grove, Marylebone, London[9] St. Joseph's Convent Preparatory School, Gravesend St Joseph's Convent School, Crackley, Kenilworth Warwickshire St. Joseph's Convent School, Wanstead, East London St Joseph's In The Park, Hertingfordbury Park, Hertford St Joseph's Park Hill School, Burnley St. Patrick's School (Wolverhampton),[10] Wolverhampton St. Philip Howard Catholic Primary School, Hatfield St Ursula's School, Bristol The McAuley Catholic High School, Doncaster Thornhill College, Derry United States of America Bishop John Carroll School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Mercymount Country Day School, Cumberland, Rhode Island Saint John The Baptist, elementary school, kindergarten to eighth grade, New Bedford, Massachusetts St. Vincent De Paul elementary school, kindergarten to eighth grade, San Diego, California Secondary schools Academy of Our Lady of Mercy:Lauralton Hall, Milford, Connecticut Assumption High School, Louisville, Kentucky Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, Massachusetts Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan High School, Riverhead, New York Catherine McAuley High School, Brooklyn, New York Catherine McAuley High School, Portland, Maine Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania Marquette High School Ottawa, IL (originally St. Xavier's Academy) McAuley Catholic High School, Joplin, Missouri McAuley High School, Cincinnati, Ohio Mercy Academy, Louisville, Kentucky Mercy High School, Baltimore, Maryland Mercy High School, Burlingame, California Mercy High School, Farmington Hills, Michigan Mercy High School, Middletown, Connecticut Mercy High School, Omaha, Nebraska Mercy High School, Red Bluff, California Mercy High School, San Francisco, California Mercy Montessori Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Mercyhurst Preparatory School, Erie, Pennsylvania Mercymount Country Day School, Cumberland, Rhode Island Merion Mercy Academy, Merion Station, Pennsylvania Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, Chicago, Illinois Mother of Mercy High School, Cincinnati, Ohio Mount de Sales Academy, Macon, Georgia Mount Mercy Academy, Buffalo, New York[11] Mount St. Mary Academy, Little Rock, Arkansas Mount Saint Mary Academy, Watchung, New Jersey Mount St. Mary High School, Oklahoma Notre Dame High School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey Our Lady of Mercy Academy, Syosset, New York Our Lady of Mercy High School, Rochester, New York Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Berlin, NJ Our Lady of Victory Academy, Dobbs Ferry, New York Sacred Heart School, Jacksonville, Florida Saint Bernard Academy, Nashville, Tennessee St. Mary Academy - Bay View, East Providence, Rhode Island Saint Raymond of Penafort, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Saint Stephen School, San Francisco, California St. Vincent's Academy, Savannah, Georgia Sisters Academy, Asbury Park, New Jersey Walsingham Academy, Williamsburg, Virginia Colleges and universities Carlow University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania College of St. Mary, Omaha, Nebraska Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey Gwynedd-Mercy University, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania Maria College, Albany, New York Marian Court College, Swampscott, Massachusetts Mercy College of Northwest Ohio, Toledo, Ohio Mercy School of Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa Mercyhurst University, Erie, Pennsylvania Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania Mount Aloysius College, Cresson, Pennsylvania Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Saint Joseph's College of Maine, Standish, Maine Saint Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island Trocaire College, Buffalo, New York University of Detroit Mercy (previously Mercy College), Detroit, Michigan University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut Defunct Mount Saint Agnes College (merged with Loyola University Maryland) The Religious Sisters of Mercy (R.S.M.) are members of a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831, in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley (1778 - 1841). In 2003, the institute had about 10,000 members worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations. |
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