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Sister Simone Campbell has served as Executive Director of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Lobby, since 2004. She is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. Among her accomplishments while at NETWORK was the writing of the famous “Nuns’ Letter,” considered by many as critically important in convincing Congress to support the Affordable Care Act, and organizing and leading NETWORK’s “Nuns on the Bus” trips across the country to support economic justice and immigration reform.

Sister Campbell has received numerous awards and has been the keynote or featured speaker at many large gatherings, including the 2012 Democratic National Convention. She has often appeared i
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A Nun on the Bus: How All o...

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“This concern for those left behind by the rise of what Pope Francis calls a “savage capitalism” is perhaps the defining mission of the church of the twentieth century, and our new millennium.”
Simone Campbell, A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community

“Yet while I do this work because of my faith, I also recognize of course that in a pluralistic society there are many different perspectives. It is both unrealistic and wrong to insist that everyone hold my views, my faith. The place we meet, in our differences, is in the founding documents of our democratic republic.”
Simone Campbell, A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community

“Yet the very phrase “pro-life” has too often meant “harsh and exclusionary,” and associating myself with such a movement made me judgmental and giving a witness that was contrary to the Gospel call.”
Simone Campbell, A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community

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