Maryknoll sister shares love and compassion at a children’s ward in a cancer hospital Every time she visits the children’s ward at the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, Maryknoll Sister Kathleen Reiley comes away renewed. “These children are my teachers,” says the missioner, with the same passion and love she felt when she started her ministry of visiting sick children more than three decades ago. “And I tell them, ‘You know, I never know what’s going to happen to me or when it will happen, but I hope I can be like you, because you accept what is happening to you.’ ” Sister Reiley shares the example of Mari, an 18-year-old girl, who had cancer since she was 3 years...
