Refurbishing an Old Tradition by Kaye Ashe, OP
The women who initiated Mary’s Pence feel we are part of a new state in the story of human development and change. We have a sense of being part of that delicious movement that is giving birth to a new sense of self among women and to a new sense of common bondedness.
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Founding Board Member Janemarie Luecke, OSB
Janemarie Luecke was a leading thinker on the changing role of nuns, and was one of nine sister authors of the influential 1965 book, The Changing Sister, and as such was a consultant to the 1967 Sisters Survey on renewal and religious life.
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Founding Board Member Rosemary Radford Reuther
She has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a groundbreaking figure in Christian feminist theology. Ruether has published numerous books, most recently a multi-volume Encyclopedia of Women in American Religion with Rosemary Skinner Keller.
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Rosalie Muschal-Reinhardt Remembers
I named my life’s mission as: to make the world a safer place for women, a saner place for men, and a better world for our grandchildren yet unborn. Mary’s Pence was another place where I could fulfill my mission.
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Founding Board Member Kaye Ashe, OP
It was the awakening to the discrimination against women in Church and society, the limited opportunities open to them, and the poverty, abuse and violence suffered by so many for so long that prompted her to accept gladly the invitation to help launch Mary’s Pence.
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Founding Board Member Teresita Weind, SNDdeN
At age seven, I was baptized by total immersion in Shiloh Baptist Church. When I was twelve years old I transferred into full communion with the Catholic Church. When Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, I began another conversion and an awakening of consciousness in my African American roots. This awakening sparked a radical shift in my ministry.
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Founding Board Member Margaret Ellen Traxler, SSND
Margaret Ellen died on Mardi Gras 2002. Like the day she died her time on earth was a celebration of life on a grand scale. Margaret was a tireless activist on behalf of civil rights, women’s rights and human rights.
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Founding Board Member Hon. Sheila Murphy
Sheila M. Murphy was born in Colorado and later attended Loretto Heights College and graduated from both Marquette and DePaul University. Her mother received a medal from Pope John XXIII...
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Mary Luke Tobin, born and educated in Denver, Colorado, entered the Sisters of Loretto in 1927. The first 23 years of her religious life were spent chiefly as a high...
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Founding Board Member Carol Coston, OP
[caption id="attachment_228" align="alignleft" width="300"] Carol Coston, OP at an early Mary's Pence Board Meeting[/caption] Carol Coston, OP is the founding Director of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby in...
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