By Dan Stockman
OSV News
ORLANDO, Fla. — Sister Nancy Schreck has worked with congregations of women religious across the country and around the world, spent years in high school classrooms, and ministered for decades with other sisters in rural Mississippi.
After all that experience she has this to say about Catholic sisters: “We are women of steel.”
She was speaking to nearly 800 Catholic sisters at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly as she received the group’s outstanding leadership award.
Sister Schreck, a Sister of St. Francis of Dubuque, Iowa, was honored Aug. 16, the last day of LCWR’s annual assembly, held this year in Orlando.
She has served in leadership and formation ministry in her congregation, as well as on the LCWR national board and in the LCWR presidency, and as a delegate to the International Union of Superiors General.
She has given presentations at LCWR assemblies and at national and regional conferences for groups including the National Religious Retirement Office, the National Religious Vocation Conference, the Religious Formation Conference and the Franciscan Federation.
She advised sisters to never give up hope.
“The future isn’t clear, but what is clear is that we’re going into it together,” Sister Schreck said.