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"Rooted In Love: The Life And Death Of Sister Dorothy Stang"

    Sr. Nancy Murray, a sibling of comic actor Bill Murray, will be in the Capital District on Saturday – September 20th - to perform her one-woman play about a nun, Sr. Dorothy Stang, who was murdered in Brazil in 2005.

  Sister Dorothy was a grey-haired woman of God who spent 40 years working to protect the poor and the Amazon rainforest of Brazil until her violent death.

Rooted in Love: The Life and Death of Sister Dorothy Stang,” will be performed on Saturday night at 7 pm, at the Rensselaer Newman Foundation’s Chapel + Cultural Center in Troy, NY. The play was written and is performed by Sister Nancy Murray who joins us this morning.

Catholic Charities Peace & Justice Commission is sponsoring the presentation.

Joe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.
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