Helping The Healing Begin
Sister Marilyn Kearns was intensely moved by the letter from the woman who had escaped a life of domestic violence. “Thank you,” the woman wrote to Sister Marilyn and her co-workers at a Montreal shelter for battered women. “Thank you for listening, for caring, for...
We Speak To The Poor By Our Lives
BY JAMIE SWIFT The following remembrance of Sister Mary Hamilton appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail on October 23, 1998. It is reprinted here with permission of the author. In the 1930s, whenever Sister Mary Hamilton managed a few days off from her nursing duties...