The congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family has a new leader, Sylvia Thibodeaux. The African American Thibodeaux started teaching in the late 1960's at a Catholic school in Tulsa, OK, where she experienced hostility due to her race. She spent 18 years in Nigeria, where she tried to start a religious order for women from all the different tribes.
Holy Family Sr. Sylvia Thibodeaux admits it. When the sisters elected her last year to head the congregation, they were getting something ...