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National Catholic Reporter – Global Sisters Report

by Dan Stockman Jul. 17, 2017

Brooklyn, New York

It’s a gorgeous spring day, and the sunshine is pouring into the bedroom of Dominican Sr. Sally Butler’s apartment in the Fort Greene neighborhood, brightening the already cheery lavender-painted walls.

Butler’s eyes are bright, especially when she talks about how Jesus was a poor working man who lived among the outcasts, a model she has tried to live since moving to the neighborhood in 1968.

“That’s what keeps me going,” Butler says. “You can meet Christ in many ways. And if that’s what a sacrament is — meeting with Christ — then I’m OK. I’ve never felt deprived. Whatever my faith is, it’s very simple.”

Butler, 86, can’t get out of bed because of spinal stenosis and arthritis. And even if she could, for the past 24 years, she says, she…