Flourishing Sisterhood

This episode features Sr. Clara Jackson, of the congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family. As a child, she “played nun” with her neighborhood friends, which helped her discern her call to religious life in her teenage years. She is a Louisiana native, and an alumna of Xavier University of Louisiana. Sr. Clara has ministered across Louisiana parishes, teaching elementary-aged children since the late 1960s. In the early 2000s, she ministered in Ville Platte, Louisiana, with the goal of healing racial divides between the Black and White Catholic churches there. Sr. Clara built trust and community within the Black congregation to empower its members to enact justice across parishional differences.

The Flourishing Sisterhood Project is supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Catholic Sisters Initiative. The podcast is produced by the Loyola Institute for Ministry and retained by the university’s Digital Humanities Archive.

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