On her first plane ride, this sister thought about her vocation

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September 16, 2022
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Sr. Patricia Johannsen grew up on a Montana farm. The call to religious life took her to Kansas, and to South Sudan. The flight to enter the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth was her first time on a plane. She remembers that during the flight, at age 17, she had this specific thought: "This plane could crash."

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