August 12, 2016

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"What was considered traditional ways of doing things did not hold up under the exigencies of the moment. Traditions were reinvented. Charisms survived; purpose survived, but all of the customs and homey expectations of the east were left behind."

- Sr. Marcia Allen, from the text of her presidential address to the LCWR membership, August 10, 2016. See all of GSR's coverage of this year's assembly here.