Suspicious of the motives of religious-run secure units intended to reform "fallen women", she raised enough money to establish her own, non-sectarian, "house of rest".
Under Section 37 of the Irish constitution, religious-run schools (which are the overwhelming majority in the country) are exempt from discrimination legislation and can dismiss from employment any teacher who they feel goes against the "ethos" of the school.
Having operated as a department of the Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation - a religious-run nursing home that covered about half of its $240,000 annual budget - it must now find a way to stand on its own.
The healthcare law already exempts churches and religious-run entities from the contraceptive mandate.
Redsky is a survivor of the notorious, now defunct, regime known as residential schools, which forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and placed them in religious-run institutions, where many suffered physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.
For France is a tough nut to crack, a country with a strong streak of secularism but also where religious tensions run high.
On Long Island, religious women run Mercy House for the severely mentally ill, and in the Bronx, others run the Mercy Center for immigrants and poor people.
Other religious groups run schools, hospitals or parishes, managing staffs and budgets.
Religious schools run by that group produced much of the Taliban leadership.
Italy is also a secular school of political and religious mediation, run by the Catholic Church.
The religious complex run by Mr. Naeemi is located in Garhi Shahu, a congested working-class neighborhood of Lahore.
