Archbishop William E Lori of Baltimore gives a keynote address September 18, 2026, at the National Assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious in Florissant, Mo. The theme of the September 17-20 assembly was "250 Years of Freedom: Daughters of the Church from One Generation to the Next." Photo: OSV News/courtesy CMSWR. Baltimore Archbishop William Lori this week praised an assembly of women religious major superiors for their witness of “evangelical poverty,” with the prelate noting the outsized influence that women religious have had on American society over the past 250 years. “You and those who came before you have taught our children, tended to the sick,…
