Religious sisters seek to fight the pandemic, and look towards post-COVID world
Apr 28, 2021 rome bureau chief
In this file photo, Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity, former president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, speaks at an Oct. 22 dialogue of Catholic women leaders at Georgetown University in Washington. (Credit: CNS photo/Lisa Helfert, Georgetown University.)
Some 300 religious sisters on Tuesday heard their peers call on them to “empower women” through education, institutions specifically created to support women, being critical of situations where women are being “trampled on,” and by telling the stories of the thousands of religious sisters who are fulfilling their “apostolic mission.”