Sr. Helen Garvey dies at age 82

[...]even as a child, Garvey found light and hope through the Catholic Church; in a 2014 article for Commonweal magazine, Garvey recalled her first-grade desire to be a Catholic sister like the one who taught her class at Our Lady of Loretto School in Hempstead.After earning a doctorate in organizational development from Columbia University in 1972, Garvey embarked on a new path as an organizational consultant, facilitating meetings for companies as well as for communities of women religious across the country.In 1986, she was elected president of LCWR and, in that role, addressed Pope John Paul II on behalf of U.S. women religious when he traveled to the United States in 1987.