Carol Zinn

Carol Zinn

Carol Zinn, a Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia, has served as executive director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious since July 2018. She served as LCWR president 2012-2015. She previously was a senior vice president for mission integration at Plante Moran, where she helped religious congregations discern plans for their future. Zinn was first elected to congregational leadership in 2009 and became a member of LCWR the same year.

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Josephite Sr. Jayne Helmlinger, then president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, greets Pope Francis after an audience during the 2019 LCWR visit to Rome. (Courtesy of LCWR)

Pope Francis embodies the essence of our shared vocational life

The pope's commitment to his religious vocation captures our minds and hearts. He clearly seeks a "lifelong, undistracted, single-focused God-quest," as Sr. Sandra Schneiders describes consecrated religious life.