Renata Steffens
Mercy Sister Marie Henderson touches up the wax molding of a statue of Catherine McAuley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, before it is sent to a Kalamazoo, Mich., foundry to be cast in bronze. (CNS photo by Robert Delaney, Michigan Catholic) (Jan. 7, 2005) See HENDERSON Jan. 6, 2005. “My aunt, my mother’s sister, was [a] Sister of Mercy,” Pope Leo XIV revealed in a letter sent recently to the Mercy Sisters in Ireland. In the letter, he called himself “a devoted follower” of Bl. Catherine McAuley. And the Sisters are quietly hoping that the Pope’s affection for their charism might help push on…
