First Friday Club of Cleveland hears plans for Women Religious Archives Collaborative
Posted on April 17, 2025, by Loretto Community
Posted by Catholic Diocese of Cleveland April 15, 2025
As Ursuline Sister Susan Durkin outlined the plans for the Women Religious Archives Collaborative to the First Friday Club of Cleveland, her passion for the project was evident.
“Today is about storytelling,” she told the sold-out crowd attending the April 3 program at the Center for Pastoral Leadership. “Catholic sisters have been a quiet force for generations. But you can’t adequately tell the story of our nation and our Church without telling the story of the Catholic sisters.”
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Looking outside the Diocese of Cleveland, she recounted the contributions of other religious women, including the Sisters of Loretto, Kentucky, founded in 1812. They traveled on the Santa Fe Trail, nursing the sick and injured and helping the sick during the flu pandemic in 1918. Nurses were in great demand during the Civil War and religious sisters helped to fill this need, Sister Durkin said.
Read the entire story on the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland website.
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