Patty Cook

Patty Cook is a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas living in East Haven, Connecticut. She served as a chaplain at Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security facility for men, as well as at two other correctional facilities. Presently, she is a spiritual director and retreat director at Mercy by the Sea retreat center; in the year prior to the pandemic, she led retreats on four continents.

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White nun, Black nurse: a connection forged by George Floyd

Although my religious order, the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, has put overcoming racism at the heart of our mission, the more I read about, pray about and study it, the more I see my own blind spots.