Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Sr. Lentsch, tireless peace activist and advocate for Appalachian women, dies

 

Presentation Sr. Mary Dennis Lenstch prays during a peace witness outside the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in April 2011. (NCR photo/Joshua J. McElwee)

Sr. Lentsch, tireless peace activist and advocate for Appalachian women, dies

by Patrick O'Neill
Aug 24, 2022 ncr

Presentation Sr. Mary Dennis Lentsch died Aug. 13, two years after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Lentsch spent months in jails and prisons for crossing lines and hopping fences to protest war and nuclear weapons.

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