LCWR names new executive director

Published: 2008-04-23

SILVER SPRING, Md. (CNS) -- The Leadership Conference of Women Religious appointed Sister Jane Burke, a School Sister of Notre Dame, as its new executive director, effective in August. Most recently, she was the national manager for the Justice for Immigrants campaign sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In a 2007 interview with Catholic News Service, Sister Burke said many church-related immigration efforts involve "getting to the people in the pews" and helping them understand to apply the principles of Catholic social teaching to the treatment of immigrants. "We don't have to debate the issue to talk to one another," she said. "But we do need to talk to one another." Last May, she asked people across the country to join a "Million Prayers Initiative" for the passage of a comprehensive immigration bill. The bill got deadlocked in Congress. As executive director, Sister Burke will administer the 1,600-member LCWR, a canonically established organization for leaders of U.S. religious communities of women, representing about 67,000 Catholic sisters.

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