Mary Oates

"In Pursuing Truth, Mary Oates considers the history of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (now Notre Dame of Maryland University), the first Catholic college in America to award the four-year baccalaureate degree to women. This book adds needed depth to the historiography of gendered higher education in the United States by exploring the struggle for equal access to Catholic higher education" Provided by publisher

superiority, of women, leads Daly to deny the legitimacy of patriarchy and its device of female separatism. She views the "patriarchal universe" as women's domain corrupted by men, and calls to women to reclaim our heritage. The halls of academia, the fields of arts and science, textiles, agriculture, architecture, politics, and law; these are women's. So too is language. Distorted to erase and degrade women, our revived mother tongue belongs in the media, in literature, in boardrooms, courthouses, legislatures. The reviewer's claim that Daly prohibits procreation (especially the bearing of sons) is most bizarre. When Daly speaks to the "lesbian imagination in all women" she includes all women: celibate, virgin, mother, lesbian. The term "lesbian" has been least diluted by patriarchal usage and evokes, with great power, all the possibilities of celebration between women. Within the flexible unity of sisterhood, we each follow our own creative calling. Birthing is one choice. At present, it involves temporary union with a man, so Daly would recommend extreme caution, and no sacrifice of women's energy. But this advice is appropriate for us all who, inevitably, must Become in "alien territory."

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Preface The essays in this book have been collected with the intention of meeting certain needs not yet satisfactorily filled in the rapidly growing body of works on women's history: first, the need fora critical historiography of the field; second, the need to test a variety of old and new ...

... Women, 1895-1960* Mary J. Oates, CSJ " We have a chance, as few such chances were ever afforded women in the history of the church, to do something of heroic proportions . ... twentieth century not the Women's Century but the Catholic Women's Century." (Mary Molloy, 1918) ...

... the contributions of Ar-mine Bagdasarian, Jeffrey Burns, Joseph Casino, Mary Joan Faller, Peter Hogan, Mary Kraft, Joanne O'Keefe ... in the first year totaled a disappoint-ing $161.05, spirits improved considerably when one member, Cornelius Heeney, made substantial gifts of ...

Commonwealth Catholicism:A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia. By Gerald P Fogarty, S.J. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2001. Pp. xxix, 687. $34.95.) In this authoritative narrative the author has left no stone unturned in his effort to describe a remarkable development that covered some four hundred years. It begins with the ill-fated efforts of Spanish Jesuits to establish a mission near the York River in 1570. It ends with the appointment of Walter E Sullivan as Richmond's eleventh bishop in 1974. The movement of the Brents from Maryland to northern Virginia is cited as a milestone. Their home on Aquia Creek would in 1930 be memorialized with a large crucifix and plaque. There annual pilgrimages would be held, often favored by the Marine Band from Quantico, as a reminder of the longevity of the Catholic presence in Virginia. John Carroll's visits to his Brent relatives is duly noted before the author takes us to the first unhappy attempt to make Virginia a diocese. In 1820, in an effort to quell trusteeism in Norfolk, Patrick Kelly of Ireland was named first bishop of the Diocese of Richmond, which encompassed the State of Virginia. As a result of the vehement opposition to this appointment on the part of Archbishop Ambrose Marechal of Baltimore, who was not consuited, Kelly left Virginia in 1822 without even having seen his see city. From then until 1840 the archbishops of Baltimore were, in effect, also the bishops of Richmond. The nine bishops of Richmond after 1840 were Richard Vincent Whelan (1840-1850), John McGill (1850-1872), James Gibbons (1872-1877), John Joseph Keane (1878-1888), Augustine van de Vyver (1889-1911), Denis O'Connell (1912-1926), Andrew Brennan (1926-1945), Peter L. Ireton (1945-1958), and John J. Russell (1958-1973). Four of the nine were born in Baltimore (Whelan, Gibbons, Ireton, and Russell), two in Ireland (Keane and O'Connell), two in Pennsylvania (McGill and Brennan), and one in Belgium (van de Vyver). Three (Gibbons, Keane, and O'Connell), who had attempted to "apply the accommodating style of Virginia Catholicism on a national level" (p. 190), were the leaders of the Americanizers in the turbulent decade and a half at the end of the nineteenth century so well rehearsed by the historians of American Catholicism. Despite certain affinities the bishops of Richmond differed markedly in temperament and tactics. None was a carbon copy of his predecessor. By and large the bishops of Richmond were liberal-minded, at least ecumenical. Beginning with McGill all were attentive to the needs of their AfricanAmerican charges. Russell was outstanding in his promotion of civil rights; integration came to the diocese on the eve of Brown vs. Board of Education. From the diocesan clergy came three of the most progressive bishops in the South in near-contemporary times: Vincent Waters of Raleigh, Ernest Unterkoefier of Charleston, and Carroll Dozier of Memphis. …

In the second sentence of her preface, Dawn DeVries states that the book is based on her dissertation, which had been deemed "a little esoteric." But whatever its origins, it is a stunning book, theologically informed, based on primary sources, and gracefully written. DeVries does not hide that Barth was critical of Schleiermacher and that many of us are inclined to note the differences rather than the affinities between her subjects. By examining the concept of Word in both Calvin and Schleiermacher and relating that to the sermons each preached, particularly on the synoptic Gospels, one is impressed by her argument that they both belong to a common tradition in which the sermon makes Christ present. The sermon is not imparting information or telling stories or proposing moral agendas; it is the occasion for the perceived, received presence of Christ and its consequences for everything else. In making that case, the author helps us see that the Word itself is active, that it performs, that it is sacramental as well as verbally proclaimed. The sermon is the nexus between God and the community, that which actively unites what is otherwise seen as divided. In this sense, both Calvin and Schleiermacher are theologians of the church, those who find their vocation in the centrality of proclamation, where Christ's presence makes all things present.

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In recent years, a number of studies have analyzed successful women and attempted to determine those factors which aided or impeded the development of their leadership qualities. These studies generally fall into one of two categories: (1) studies which focus mainly on the characteristics of women working in specific fields over limited chronological periods' or (2) surveys of successful college graduates which examine significant features such as educational background but which do not differentiate the women by occupation in much detail.2 While the importance of higher education to future success has long been accepted, there is need for more knowledge about the relationships between the type of college education received and subsequent educational decisions, the field of work chosen, and the degree of career success.3 This paper aims to extend our knowledge in this area. American women seeking a college education have had a choice