Tau PublishingSr. Laura Morgan, FMSC
Franciscan Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart
Sister Laura Morgan was born in East Paterson, New Jersey, and entered the Peekskill Franciscan Sisters in September 1970. She holds a BA in English and Elementary Education from Ladycliff College and an MA in Theology from St. Bonaventure University, with certification in Montessori education from the St. Nicholas Training Centre in London and in bereavement counseling from the Archdiocese of New York.
She has been a Montessori teacher, a high school teacher, a hospital chaplain and a pastoral associate, and in 2015 was elected Provincial Superior of the American Province of the Franciscan Sisters. From 1980 to 2015 she volunteered in the New York State prison system alongside her friend Sister Antonia Maguire, working with men, women and inmates with AIDS.
