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The Tablet January 27, 2021
Sister Mary Paul Janchill (left) and Sister Geraldine Tobia started the Center for Family Life forty-three years ago with a family counseling service and a foster care program. CFL has now grown into an agency that offers a wide array of services to the residents of Sunset Park. (Photo: Courtesy of Center for Family Life)
SUNSET PARK When Sisters Mary Paul Janchill and Geraldine Tobia, RGS, founded the Center for Family Life in 1978, they didn’t envision themselves as heroines swooping into the neighborhood to save residents from poverty and gang violence.
Far from it, in fact.