A Home Away from the Madness

Last week, Nuns on the Bus traveled to Chicago’s South Side to visit Mercy Housing, a home for low-income and homeless people, sponsored by a variety of women’s religious orders. There, Sister Simone met resident Shiesha Smith, a former felon facing a number of personal challenges who says Mercy Housing took her “away from all of that madness.” Meet Smith in the video below, and watch Sister Simone Campbell explain how public-private partnerships create such opportunities.

Producer/shooter: Andrew Fredericks; editor: Lauren Feeney; production assistant Jackie Kostek

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  • Sue

    I like the nuns too!

  • gbjlaforest

    This is an image of the nuns’ protests for civil rights in the 60′s . . . The Vatican needs to catch up . . .

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000296501277 Andrea Bates-Baier

    Shiesha will do great things with her life now.  She is definitely on the right track.  And Sister Simone…what a role model!  We met her when the “Nuns on the Bus” tour came to Detroit.  Thank God for her and her colleagues!

  • Stand4sumn

    The nuns are really down to earth people! You guys are kool.. 8-)