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By Patti Maguire Armstrong, National Catholic Register, March 8, 2025
Patti (Maguire) Armstrong is an award-winning journalist and was managing editor and co-author of the bestselling Amazing Grace Series. Her latest books are the humorous and inspirational second-edition Dear God, I Don’t Get It, Dear God, You Can’t Be Serious!, What Would Monica Do? …
Perhaps the most unsung heroes in the world are Catholic sisters who have taken on the role of mothers for children without parents to provide for them.
Sal Di Leo grew up in an orphanage in the 1960s, the 11th of 12 children rescued from abject poverty after their father left them.
“I don’t know where I’d be today without the sisters,” observed Di Leo.
He is not alone in his admiration.
“Without the sisters, I would close tomorrow,” Father Jeff Bayhi, founder of Metanoia Manor in Louisiana, says of the Catholic sisters who help staff the only accredited treatment home for adolescent girls who are trafficked in the United States.
“No one can do anything like Catholic sisters can,” according to John Clegg, volunteer director for Sisters of Mary World Villages for Children, which cares for 20,000 poor children annually in six countries. “They are the most saintly, humble, loving and caring human beings I know.”
Perhaps the most unsung heroes in the world are Catholic sisters who have taken on the role of mothers for children without parents to provide for them.
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