All bar nun, holy event is a real-life global sister act

KEEPING THE FAITH Nuns pray during the Rome congress

- BY GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO

THEY don't have a vote in the election of a Pope, but nearly 900 superiors of the world's female religious orders gathered in Rome yesterday.

Irishwoman Sister Mary Barron - the president of the umbrella group of leaders of women’s religious orders - urged fellow nuns to pray cardinals make the right choice to replace Pope Francis.