KEDT-TV, the local public television station, will air the documentary Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America on June 25 at 8 p.m.
Cokie Roberts narrates the documentary that chronicles the presence and efforts of Catholic Sisters in the United States from 1727 to the present. It is a story of quiet courage during many dramatic moments in U.S. history.
Viewers will discover the mystery behind the community of innovative women who helped shape the nation’s social, cultural and spiritual landscape. They will meet women who corresponded with President Thomas Jefferson, nursed soldiers on the battlefields of the Civil War, created health insurance for Midwestern loggers, cared for the sick in epidemics, helped in the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, marched with civil rights leaders and are on the front lines today addressing global crisis.
For more information or to buy the DVD go to
www.lcwr.org and click on publications.