Megan Rice, nun who was imprisoned over nuclear weapons protest, dead at 91

Key Facts

• October 17, 2021 / 10:31 PM / AP Megan Rice, a nun and Catholic peace activist who while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons, has died.
• Rice died of congestive heart failure October 10 at Holy Child Center in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, according to her order, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.
• Rice was born in New York to activist parents who would meet with well-known Catholic writer Dorothy Day during the Great Depression to craft solutions for societal problems, she said in a 2013 interview with the Catholic Agitator.
• Federal prosecutors described Rice and her codefendants as "recidivists and habitual offenders" who would break the law again "as soon as they are physically capable of doing so," according to court records Rice's attorneys sought leniency from U.S.

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