‘Power of Sisterhood’: Women Religious Discuss the Apostolic Visitation — Special Podcast

Summary: Before the Dec. 16 release of the Vatican's final report on the “apostolic visitation,” an inquiry into the lives and ministries of American nuns, Judith Valente, America's Chicago correspondent, spoke with Sister Mary Ann Zollmann and Sister Jean Wincek, co-authors of Power of Sisterhood, a collection of essays that record the experience of women religious during the visitation, and Mary Cain McCarthy, a professor at Canisius College in New York, who surveyed 143 superiors whose communities received visits from the Vatican.