For #InternationalWomensDay learn about 150 great women of the Beatitudes in “Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time”—including: Mother Maria Skobtsova, Fannie Lou Hamer, Etty Hillesum...
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Simone Weil, Madeleine Delbrêl, Sr Thea Bowman, Sophie Scholl...
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Dorothy Day, Jean Donovan, Maura O’Halloran, Peace Pilgrim... and of course Sts Clare, Mary Magdalen, Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Joan of Arc, Bernadette, Edith Stein, Teresa of Calcutta, Catherine of Siena....
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In the summer of 1980, I studied in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, just after Oscar Romero was killed in El S. Jean Donovan was in the same school as I. When she went on to El S, dying so tragically that Dec., I wept. She was a woman of such character and truly lived Christ.
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Replying to @MarkJW23
Very bad times in Central America then.

Mar 9, 2020 · 8:42 AM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Thank you for your kind reply. Yes, it was a dangerous time. I was there not too long after my father died (a nuclear veteran). I always admired your father's courage. And, it has taken me decades to find my own voice as you will see from piece attached. nytimes.com/2019/02/21/opini…

Opinion | I Was Sexually Abused by a Catholic Priest. The Church Must Listen to Victims. (Published...

The pope should drive abusers and their enablers from the ministry.

nytimes.com
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I am so sorry! What a terrible story. Thank you for sharing it.