At 108, Dominican sister says God ‘just wants me to hang around’
Sisters Francis Dominici Piscatella, center, and Francis Daniel Kammer, left, members of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville, N.Y., are joined by their friend Lillian DeMarco as they chat with crossing guard Barbara Visogno after attending Mass at St. Aidan Church in Williston Park, N.Y., April 17, 2021. According to searchable public data, Sister Piscatella, who celebrated her 108th birthday April 20, is the second-oldest living religious sister in the U.S. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
By Gregory A. Shemitz • Catholic News Service • Posted April 26, 2021
EAST WILLISTON, N.Y. (CNS) — To put Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella’s extraordinarily long life into historical perspective, consider that Pope Pius X was pontiff and Woodrow Wilson was U.S. president when she was born in 1913.