The names of 53 nuns were posted online, but the nuns say only 55 are currently living there, and three of the 53 seen in the video with the name Maroney gave X. They say people no longer live there.
Maroney later wrote on X that if the nuns were legal voters, they “encourage them to participate in voting rights,” adding that “our legal team is currently continuing to analyze the situation.”
“So there’s nothing to analyze,” Sister Linda Romy, who coordinates the nuns’ communication and development efforts, said Friday. And with news crews filming them in recent days, “there’s a lot of evidence that we’re here,” she said.
Romy said the nuns felt that Maloney had invaded their privacy.
“They post things right away without even asking simple questions,” Romy said.
At this moment of political attention for the nuns, she received a phone call from Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania’s highest-ranking election official as secretary of state. Schmidt posted on X on Thursday that he spoke with the abbot of the monastery “to thank her for standing up against election disinformation.”
