During National Catholic Sisters Week, March 8-14, Sr. Maher was named by the Catholic Mobilizing Network To End Use of the Death Penalty as one of the seven women religious in “Pioneers for Justice: Seven Sisters Whose Prison Ministry Inspires Us.”
Sr. Maher, a hospital chaplain at St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino, has been instrumental in Diocesan ministry to those who have lost a loved one to violence. She brings her own personal experience of losing a brother to murder and how her faith ultimately led her to forgiveness and staunch opposition to the death penalty.
She offered her story in an essay, “We Are Able,” published on the Catholic Mobilizing Network web site. You can find it at http://catholicsmobilizing.org/9420/we-are-able/