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Patricia Daly, nun who led moral battles in corporate world, dies at 66

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December 29, 2022 at 4:44 p.m. EST
Sister Patricia Daly, widely known as Sister Pat, at a 2015 conference by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility)
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In 1977, a 21-year-old novice who was starting her life as a Dominican nun showed up the annual meeting of the textile company J.P. Stevens, which was locked in a fight with employees seeking union representation.

The novice’s order, Sisters of Saint Dominic of Caldwell, had Stevens stock in its retirement portfolio, she had discovered. Now, Patricia Daly wanted to see how the union issue would play out at the meeting in New York.