The Sister of Second Chances (New York City)
[Fred R. Conrad photo] In an unglamorous pocket of Long Island City, Queens, between two of the nation’s largest public housing projects, dozens of women could tell comparable stories about Sister Tesa. Twenty-seven years ago, answering an open call from an older nun, she started a home for children whose mothers were in the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Last year she was honored by the White House. Now, on a drizzly May afternoon, she walked the battered streets of her...