Pope John Paul II wrote in paragraph 54 of Ut unum sint that the church "must breathe with her two lungs," meaning the union of Latin and Orthodox traditions.

Finally, back in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, she was Academic Dean at Manor College, founded by the Byzantine Ukrainian Sisters of Saint Basil the Great.

[8] She remained good friends with Metropolitan (bishop) Bohachevsky until his death in 1961, and he once confided to her that "most at home" with their congregation in Pennsylvania.

The pope encouraged her (in the words of her uncle who was present) to "have faith and courage during her tenure of office... and to diligently love, pray and work for the improvement of conditions in Ukraine for his persecuted Ukrainian people.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, she became a Special Delegate assigned to the congregation's Basilian Province in Ukraine, and while based there she also visited sisters in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

On Thursday, May 13, 1982, Charles F. Dougherty, the Republican member of Congress from Pennsylvania, read her name into the Congressional Record when honoring the congregation on its 50th jubilee.

[11] Her closest friend in the congregation was Sister Bohdonna Stephanie Podney, who was named in her obituary for their years of friendship.