Maryknoll Affiliates

Maryknoll Affiliate Jackie Maggiore was interviewed on their local Public Radio station,WUWM-HD 89.7 FM- Milwaukee Public Radio, this morning.

The discussed her book, Vessel of Clay, and Sr Carla Piette MM.

You can go to the WUWM website and listen to it here or listen here.

By Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore

The Lord is calling me to be poor with His poor.

 Vessel of Clay traces the compelling life of Carla Piette, MM, as she accompanied the poor who suffered through two violent regimes—Chile and El Salvador.

Carla—remembered as clown, poet, artist, prophet, scripture scholar—was known for her radical poverty and fierce commitment to the "poor, ole beatup people" whom she loved.

As a Maryknoll missioner in Chile from 1964 to 1979, Carla lived with the poor during the terror of the 1973 military coup and years of the ensuing dictatorship.