Sister Thea did not hesitate to challenge and even chide the bishops for their complicity in a “church of paternalism, of a patronizing attitude” toward people of color.
Among our many family photographs there is one of me as a toddler beginning to take tentative first steps I am reaching out my hand to my father who is beside me looking down at me with some concern ready to grasp mine I am dressed in a light-blue winter outfit with the hood pulled up over my