Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Chicago (Ill.)

Scope and Contents This collection begins with thye report cards of Sr. Mary Ann O'Ryan, OSB, from her time at St. Symphorosa School and contains material from her education as well as from schools where she worked as principal and teacher. There are letters she wrote to her family when she first entered the community just as Vatican II was being held in Rome, and her writings on Catholicc women in history she wrote while pursuing her doctoral studies at Loyola University. Sr. Mary Ann O'Ryan, OSB, also...

Scope and Contents From the Class: This class contains periodicals with content from across all areas of the archives. We store them together due to their similar material, size, and fragility. The content is related to individual Benedictine Sisters, schools staffed by Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, and to the Catholic culture of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Diocese of Pueblo. The archives considers the context of the articles and/or the carrier of the content to be of intrinsic value so the entire page or newspaper...

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Contains responses to six questions the Archdiocese of Chicago asked women religious about their experience in society and the Church. These questions were asked after the National Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed interest in writing a pastoral letter on women religious, with input from women in each diocese.