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GOD so loves you, that he has allowed you to become HIS child. You are a child of GOD! AMAZING
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Catholic nuns have shown extraordinary bravery and derringdo. Since they arrived in America more than 300 years ago, when the first Ursuline sisters arrived in New Orleans in 1727, nuns have stood under a bright light and lifted it higher in this during the country's darkest hours, nuns have helped stream forward a rushing river of love that began 2,000 years ago, to paraphrase Saint Bernard de Clairvaux. *Today, approximately one in six U.S. hospital patients is cared for in a Catholic facility.
 * Catholic sisters' quiet heroism during the Civil War, the Gold Rush, the San Francisco Earthquake, the Influenza Epidemic, the Civil Rights Movement, even to this day in their work with Hurricane Katrina. For example, more than 600 sisters from 21 different communities nursed both Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.
 * Catholic nuns have served frontier communities, talked down bandits and roughnecks, lugged pianos into the wilderness, and provided the nation's first health insurance to Midwestern loggers.
 * Throughout periods of struggle and controversy, Catholic sisters have opened orphanages, schools, hospitals, colleges, universities, and provided other social services that have served millions of Americans.
 * The U.S. Catholic school system is the largest private school system in the world, largely established and run by Catholic nuns. More than 110 U.S. colleges and universities were founded by Catholic sisters. The first American-born saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, SC, founder of Sisters of Charity, was a mother and widow who established the nation's first free Catholic school (EMac: One of my favorite quotes: "Faith lifts the staggering soul on one side, Hope supports it on the other, Experience says it must be, Love says, Let it be."--Saint Elizabeth Seton.)
 * During its founding, Alcoholics Anonymous received vital support from Sister Ignatia Gavin, CSA, who successfully advocated that alcoholism be treated as a medical condition.
 * Catholic nuns have contributed to science. That includes pioneering research in infrared spectrography by Sister Miriam Stimson, OP, research which supported the discovery of DNA.
 * Since 1980, nine American sisters have been murdered while working for social justice and human rights overseas.
 * Since 1995, numerous congregations have participated as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations, focusing on global issues such as climate change, human trafficking, and poverty.