NPR reporter Sonari Glinton recalls how Sr. Rosemary Brennan, the principal of St. Philip Neri Catholic school in Chicago, helped to show students how Jesus related to them on an episode of This American Life:

Sonari Glinton tells the story of how a Catholic nun teaches an entire school on Chicago’s South Side that we are all truly made in God’s image.

Sr. Rosemary, recognizing that the students in the once white neighborhood were now predominantly black, sought to make some images in the classrooms more relatable to the students.

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Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.