Women in church leadership: 40 years after Sr. Theresa Kane's request to pope

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Women in church leadership: 40 years after Sr. Theresa Kane's request to pope

Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans Global Sisters Report

(October 3, 2019)

On an October day four decades ago, Sr. Theresa Kane, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and head of the Sisters of Mercy in the U.S., stood before 5,000 other sisters gathered to greet Pope John Paul II at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. She spoke of the sisters' "profound respect, esteem and affection" for the pontiff. (read more)

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