 Because few children could pay for their education, the sisters supplemented their income with a laundry service, which they operated for over fifty years.In the 1950s, the sisters organized a childcare program serving infants and pre-school children.On 26 September 2007, Monsignor J. Gaston Hebert, diocesan administrator, announced that six of the ten sisters at the Monastery of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge had been formally excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church for their association with a Canadian group called the Army of Mary, which the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had defined as a heretical group.