... of the nascent feminist movement, Henold demonstrates that Catholic feminism continued to accept a modified notion of male/female complementarity even as it asserted the right of Catholic laywomen to be active in the Church and develop a theology that was their own. Feminism Mealey Margaret National Council...

...This collection of twelve essays has one thing in common: they feature the lives and work of twentieth-century US Catholic laywomen. Each woman discussed made unique contributions to Catholic life and thought across the twentieth century. Some are cradle Catholics; others are converts. Some come...

...This chapter describes three church buildings funded by wealthy American laywomen in the mid-twentieth century: St. Ann (Palo Alto, CA), funded by Clare Boothe Luce; the Chapel of the Holy Cross (Sedona, AZ), funded by Marguerite Brunswig Staude; and the Rothko Chapel, originally intended...

...This volume focuses on Catholic women in the twentieth century across different regions of the United States. Contributors explore the lives and contributions of Catholic laywomen across diverse racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds. They address themes related to spirituality...