Chicago's St. Anne's Convent on La Salle Street on the Near North Side will close.
An old mahogany china cabinet. A manual typewriter. A life-size plaster statue of the Virgin Mary and St. Anne - yellowed and flaking.
"We will handle taking care of Sister Judith," said the Rev. John Heschle, the rector emeritus of St. Paul's Church by-the-Lake in Rogers Park, referring to the nonprofit corporation that has overseen the order. Murphy isn't an expert on Episcopalian nuns, but he said the Order of St. Anne's demise is similar to what has happened to Catholic convents across the United States. The church euphemistically calls such closures "completing its work," he said.
Mandrath hired an attorney, who has argued in documents filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County the church is wrong: The Order of St. Anne isn't extinct because, in addition to Mandrath, it has several sisters who live at a Massachusetts convent. "We are thankful for the Order of St. Anne's century of ministry in Chicago, and we are saddened that they are no longer active among us. The Church of the Ascension strives to carry on the sisters' tradition of care for our community, and we draw inspiration from the legacy they have given us," the Rev. Thomas Heard, Church of the Ascension's interim director, said in a statement.
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