“I’m packing for Poland,” Sr Briege McKenna tells me down the phone, pronouncing on prayer, priesthood and Pope Leo. The globe-trotting nun, with a gift for healing and evangelisation, recently returned to Ireland for the fiftieth anniversary of Intercession for Priests, a mission founded in Dublin by the late Fr Kevin Scallon to heal and restore…
Sr Briege McKenna on prayer, priesthood and Pope Leo
Priests gathered in Maynooth for the 50th anniversary of Intercession for Priests. Photo: Sr Briege McKenna.

Martina Purdy