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| Nuns provide a home as former inmates restart their lives |
| By grandhaventribune.com |
| Published: 01/11/2016 |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. –– The morning is cold and dark when Sister Rose McLarney comes out of the old brick building on Beacon Hill and opens the gates to the street. She then goes back inside and, there in the warm kitchen with coffee almost ready, the women who live upstairs come down to talk. Big things, little things. McLarney, 75, a sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, listens, the women’s ease and candor settling in more each day since they arrived at the new Journey House — dates they can cite immediately. “Because that’s the day we got out of prison,” said Sher Bialczyk, 53. For years, the Catholic nuns here lived in the quiet peace of a convent. Now they share a home with 15 younger women who have been stabbed, beaten, molested, hooked on drugs and served time. Read More. |
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