The Society of the Sacred Heart in the United States and Canada began – as so many American and Canadian institutions – with an immigrant. Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne left her home in France in 1818 with a desire to educate the poor, especially indigenous people of America.
In our 2016 Chapter Calls, the International Society of the Sacred Heart renewed its unity in diversity to “…act as one Body, dynamic, interconnected, linked with other bodies, in the world and as Church, in order to share, collaborate, and to be in solidarity among ourselves and with others.” (General Chapter 2016)
In the Society’s International Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) document of June 2019, Being Artisans of Hope in Our Blessed and Broken World, migration is named as one of the four major themes we are addressing internationally as one Body in the Church and in the world.