Nuns who provide care at county jail featured in documentary
Two nuns often can be found providing pastoral care to the immigrants housed at the McHenry County Jail and other detention centers.
And now, Sisters JoAnn Persch and Pat Murphy can be seen on the big screen.
“Band of Sisters” premiered Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago and will run through Thursday. The documentary focuses on the lives of nuns post-Vatican II, a 1960s meeting in Rome of all the world’s Catholic bishops with the goal of bringing the church into the modern world.
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