“Pilgrimage to Gower: Honoring the Legacy of Suor Wilhelmina Lancaster”

NEW YORK – In a country torn apart by massacres, shootings and calls for civil war, there is also room for the birth of a new place of pilgrimage: Gower, a village of a thousand inhabitants 70 kilometers from Kansas Cityin the rural state of Missouri. For ten days, hundreds of faithful queued up to touch even with a single finger the exhumed body of Suor Wilhelmina Lancasterthe African American founder of Benedictine Sisters of Marywho died in May of…