Nun was shocked by some of the ‘very distasteful’ media coverage of the order. The depiction of the Sisters of Charity during the recent controversy over the transfer of the National Maternity Hospital to St Vincent’s hospital was akin to elder abuse, according to one of the order’s best-known members.
Sr Stanislaus Kennedy said she was
shocked and surprised by the scale of the controversy over St Vincent’s
and the criticisms levelled at her order. “It shook me, it really did.”