Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America, a traveling American history exhibit, opens May 9, 2010 at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beechwood, Ohio, documenting the sisters’ contributions to shaping America’s educational, healthcare and social justice institutions. Today almost 10% of 63,000 sisters teach 2.5 million students in Catholic elementary and high schools. Sister Lila Sciabica (pictured) teaches student at Sacred Heart Elementary School in Carbondale, PA. (Photo courtesy of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scranton, PA.)

The exhibit will be open through August 28, 2010.