Patricia McCann

Sr. Patricia McCann is a member of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy from Pennsylvania. With an academic background in American church history, her ministry experience was divided between teaching and administration, in secondary school and in a seminary. She served on the leadership team of the Pittsburgh Mercy Community, and then as vice president of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. After a term as Region IV chair for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, she served a term as executive secretary of the national LCWR. Currently, she continues a retirement ministry of writing, speaking, retreats and workshops.

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An expectant mother is seen in 2016 at a maternity home in Riverside, New Jersey, one of six pro-life maternity homes in the Good Counsel network. (CNS/Jeffrey Bruno)

A pro-life challenge

Through a new conversation on the complexity of abortion and other life issues, clergy and laity could build a life-affirming consensus that can ultimately provide grounding for meaningful law in a pluralist society.