Mary Hunt

Aug 23, 2024 | ncronline.org | Dan Stockman |Christine Schenk |Mary Hunt

Mercy Sr. Theresa Kane, who fought for decades for the equality of women in the Catholic Church — famously publicly challenging the pope on the issue — died Aug. 22. She was 87. Kane's congregation, the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, announced her death.

Aug 23, 2024 | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Christine Schenk |Mary Hunt

Mercy Sr. Theresa Kane in June 2019 during a liturgy when four Mercy sisters professed their perpetual vows. Kane, who fought for decades for the equality of women in the Catholic Church — famously publicly challenging the pope on the issue in 1979 — died Aug. 22 at age 87. (Courtesy of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas) Mercy Sr. Theresa Kane, who fought for decades for the equality of women in the Catholic Church — famously publicly challenging the pope on the issue — died Aug. 22.

Apr 24, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Mary Hunt |Thomas Geoghegan |Beverly Willett |Sharon Mesmer

Interested in discussing this article in your classroom, parish, reading group, or Commonweal Local Community? Click here for a free discussion guide. In 1975, when the Women’s Ordination Conference began, we knew what a woman was, why men got ordained, and who was involved in the conversation by who was registered for the conference. Fifty years later, these matters are infinitely more complicated.