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Catholic lay women were involved in Catholic Arts and Letters in the 20th century, especially in English language literature. Sophie Treadwell was a Mexican-American Catholic laywoman who was both a journalist and a playwright in the first half of the 20th century. She wrote dozens of plays, several novels and serial stories, as well as ...
References are made within the earliest Christian communities to the role of women in positions of church leadership. Paul's letter to the Romans, written in the first century, commends Phoebe who is described as "deaconess of the church at Cenchreae" that she be received "in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and ...
The Women's Ordination Conference is an organization in the United States that works to ordain women as deacons, priests, and bishops in the Catholic Church.. Founded in 1975, the conference was seeded from an idea the year before, when Mary B. Lynch asked the people on her Christmas list if it was time to publicly ask "Should Catholic women be priests?"
Sarcophagus of the Egyptian priestess Iset-en-kheb, 25th–26th Dynasty (7th–6th century BC). In Ancient Egyptian religion, God's Wife of Amun was the highest ranking priestess; this title was held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun, during the reign of Hatshepsut, while the capital of Egypt was in Thebes during the second millennium BC (circa 2160 BC).
The Catholic Women's League (CWL) is a Catholic lay organisation founded in 1906 by Margaret Fletcher. Originally intended to bring together Catholic women in England, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the organization has grown, and may be found in numerous Commonwealth countries.
Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
The Transformation of American Catholic Sisters (1993) excerpt and text search; Schneider, Mary L. "American Sisters and the Roots of Change: the 1950s." US Catholic Historian (1988): 55-72. JSTOR 25153816; Schier, Tracy, and Cynthia Russett, eds. Catholic women's colleges in America (2002) Stepsis, Ursula and Dolores Liptak.
Barlow joined the newly formed Catholic Women's Association in 1913. The organisation was established to provide social activities for Catholic women in the Sydney area, bringing women together from various parishes. [7] In 1914, Barlow became chairwoman of the association, and in 1917 she became president, a role she held until her death in ...