The nuns in our community are highly visible. They run numerous heavily used social service institutions on the poorer side of town, and every time someone is gunned down they hold a vigil at the site of the shooting and all of the victim's family and friends gather as the nuns pray.  When a mentally ill client of their "soup kitchen" torched the place, everyone knew that the sisters would work doubly hard to get it rebuilt, which they did, in short order.