August 26, 2024
Mercy Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, is blessed by St. John Paul II at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington during the pope's 1979 visit to the U.S. Sister Kane, earlier in the service, had challenged the pope to include women in all ministries of the church. She died at age 87 Aug. 22, 2024. (OSV News photo/CNS file)
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