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PERRYVILLE, Md. — Something about the Eastern Shore brought out a previously hidden religious vocation in Kathy Flood.
The New York native heard a mid-life call to become a Franciscan sister after a job transfer sent her to Maryland and into the welcoming community of Good Shepherd Parish in Perryville.
WASHINGTON — As the top officials of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious prepared to meet in Rome with the head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, they received messages of support and solidarity from the executive committee of the Congregation of Major Superiors of Men and the heads of seven Franciscan provinces in the U.S.
“For us, there can be no dispute that God has been and continues to be revealed through the faithful (and often unsung) witness of religious women in the United States,” said the provincial ministers of the Order of Friars Minor in an open letter to U.S. Catholic nuns.
Staff reporter
NEWARK — Inside the Jeanne Jugan Residence, two young men who are just beginning their journey as Franciscans are helping bring companionship and the faith to others, many of whom are more than 50 years older than them.
Casey Cole and Dennis Bennett are among five postulants who are in the midst of their formation for the Franciscans’ Holy Name Province. Two others are working at St. Francis Inn Ministries in Philadelphia, which includes a soup kitchen, women’s shelter, thrift store and social services center. The other one is in parish ministry at St. Paul’s in Wilmington, where the five live.
