The Word Among Us

Lent 2023 Issue

We Can’t Throw Them Away

How an 82-Year-Old Nun Is Changing Lives

By: Deacon Greg Kandra

We Can’t Throw Them Away: How an 82-Year-Old Nun Is Changing Lives by Deacon Greg Kandra

If you’re looking for someone to minister to thousands of people at a Mexican prison, an eighty-two-year-old great-grandmother would probably not be your first choice.

Oh, and she’s a nun.

Maybe Even More. Sr. Viola Ramirez is hardly anyone’s idea of a pushover. She is prayerful and persistent. And fearless. This...

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