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Perhaps the most unsung heroes in the world are Catholic sisters who have taken on the role of mothers for children without parents to provide for them.
Sal Di Leo grew up in an orphanage in the 1960s, the 11th of 12 children rescued from abject poverty after their father left them.
“I don’t know where I’d be today without the sisters,” observed Di Leo.
He is not alone in his admiration.
“Without the sisters, I would close tomorrow,” Father Jeff Bayhi, founder of Metanoia Manor in Louisiana, says of the Catholic sisters who help staff the only accredited treatment home for adolescent girls who are trafficked in the United States.
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Sal Di Leo grew up in an orphanage in the 1960s, the 11th of 12 children rescued from abject poverty after their father left them.
“I don’t know where I’d be today without the sisters,” observed Di Leo.
He is not alone in his admiration.
“Without the sisters, I would close tomorrow,” Father Jeff Bayhi, founder of Metanoia Manor in Louisiana, says of the Catholic sisters who help staff the only accredited treatment home for adolescent girls who are trafficked in the United States.
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The Unsung Catholic Sisters Who Care for Abandoned Children
Perhaps the most unsung heroes in the world are Catholic sisters who have taken on the role of mothers for children without parents to provide for them.