Patrons of Catherine of Siena College

Angela Berlis

MA Theology (Bonn & Utrecht); PhD Theology (University of Nijmegen). Ordained a priest in the Old Catholic Church (1966). At present Professor of Church History at the University of Utrecht and Research Fellow at the University of Tilburg.

President of the IWFN, International Network of Women Theologians.

Recent publications:

• Women Churches: Networking and Reflection in the European Context, editor with others.
• Holy Texts: Authority and Language (Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research), editor with others.
• “Mieux que six évêques et douze professeurs… . Amalie von Lasaulx (1815-1871) et la naissance du vieuxcatholicisme allemand”, in: Archivio per la storia delle donne, Adriana Valerio (ed.), D’Auria: Napoli 2004, pp. 227-237
• “ Ignaz von Döllinger - Christine von Hoiningen-Huene. Briefwechsel 1881-1890”, edited by Angela Berlis & Hubert Huppertz, in: Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift 95 (2005,) 95-143.

Mary Grey

MA in Literae Humaniores (University of Oxford), MA in Religious Studies and PhD in Theology (University of Louvain). Professor at the Universities of Nijmegen (1988-1993) and Southampton (1993-1997). At present Professor of Pastoral Theology, University of Wales, Lampeter.

Her books include:

• In Search of the Sacred: Sacraments and Parish Renewal (1983);
• Christian Feminist Spirituality of Redemption as Mutuality- in- Relation (1987);
• Redeeming the Dream: Feminism, Redemption and Christian Tradition (1989);
• From Barriers to Community: the Challenge of the Gospel for a Divided Society (1991);
• The Wisdom of Fools? Seeking Revelation for Today (1993);
• Prophecy and Mysticism: The Heart of the Post-modern Church (1997);
• Beyond the Dark Night- a Way forward for the Church? (1997);
• The Outrageous Pursuit of Hope - Prophetic Dreams for the 21^st Century (2000 );
• Feminist Images of the Divine (2001);
• Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist theology and Globalisation (2003 );
• The Unheard Scream- the Struggles of Dalit Women in India (2004).

See her Curriculum Vitae here.

Martinus T. Handoko

MA in Education  1983 (Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta, Indonesia); M.Sc in Guidance and Counseling  1993 (De La Salle University Manila, the Philippines); Ph.D in Counseling Psychology  1997 (De La Salle University Manila).

Rector of the Catholic University of Semarang, Indonesia; Lecturer, Graduate Studies of the State University of Semarang; Member of Government Education Board for the Province of Central Jawa; Vice President of the Association of Private Tertiary Education of Central Jawa.

His books include:

• “Motivasi: Daya Penggerak Tingkah Laku” Motivation: the energy of human behavior), Yogyakarta 5 editions;
• “Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini” (Early Childhood Education), Jakarta 1987;
• “Pendidikan Menuju Proses Dehumanisasi? (Education: Toward the Process of Dehumanisation?), Yogyakarta 2002;
• “The Effectiveness of Values Clarification, Moralizing, and Person Centered Approach for Underachieving Senior Secondary School Students”, Manila 1997;
• and many more.

For a Curriculum Vitae and publication list, see here.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Master of Divinity and Licenciate in Theology (University of Würzburg), Doctor of Theology (University of Münster). Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.

Co-founder and editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and a co-editor of Concilium. She was elected the first woman president of the Society of Biblical Literature and has served on the editorial boards of major biblical journals and societies. In 2001, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Her published work includes:

• In Memory of Her (translated into 12 languages);
• Bread Not Stone;
• But She Said;
• Discipleship of Equals;
• Revelation: Vision of a Just World;
• The Power of Naming;
• Jesus: Miriam’s Child;
• Sharing Her Word;
• Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation;
• Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation;
• Grenzen überschreiten: Der theoretische Anspruch feministischer Theologie (2004).

Sr Teresa Kane MA MPA

Teresa Kane was born in 1935. In 1955 she entered the Sisters of Mercy. Teresa specialised in Administration and Behavioural Science.

• Certificate in Hospital Administration, Columbia University
• BA, Manhattanville College
• MA, Sarah Lawrence College
• MPA (Master Public Administration), New York University.

While Teresa began to teach in Mercy College, New York, she was also appointed to the Provincial Council of the Sisters of Mercy (1966). She was involved in the building up of the CMSW, the Conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious which later became the LCWR, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

From 1979 – 1980 Sr Teresa Kane held the office of President of the LCWR. It was in that capacity that she publicly addressed Pope John Paul II on October 7, 1979, in Washington. In her speech she appealed to the Pope to review the Church’s policy of excluding women from the ordained ministries in the Church. It made her famous world wide. For an excerpt of her speech, click here.

Dr Mary John Mananzan,OSB

Sr. Mary John Mananzan,OSB is a Missionary Benedictine sister.

She obtained her doctorate degree in Philosophy major in Linguistic Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and a degree in Missiology at the Wilhelmsuniversitaet in Muenster, Germany.

Her involvement includes charting new paths in the academe and working with the masses especially the women. As a feminist-activist she has given birth to women-centered programs among them are the Institute of Women’s Studies, Women Ecology and Wholeness Farm, and the Women Crisis Center.

• She was the National Chairperson of GABRIELA, a broad alliance of women’s organization for 18 years.(1986-2004)
• She is actively involved in developing a distinct Third World Theology and was the Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) until September, 2001.
• She served for 5 years as the International Coordinator of the Women’s Commision of EATWOT which developed a Feminist Theology of Liberation from the perspective of Third World women.
• She was President of St. Scholastica’s College for 6 years (1996-2002) and has just been elected Prioress of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the Manila Priory.

She was awarded the Dorothy Cadbury Fellowship in 1994 in Birmingham and Henry Luce Fellowship at the Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1995.

See her Curriculum Vitae here.

Sr Naoko Iyori

• MA History, and Diploma from Pastoral Institute of Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain.
• Retired lecturer at Dept. of Sociology at various Universities in Japan.
• Lecturer at Institutes of On-going Religious Formation and of Lay Missionary Formation.

Sr Iyori was visiting research associate at the Centre for Religion, Culture and Gender in the Dept. of Religions and Theology at Manchester University, UK (1998~1999).
She has worked with the Japanese Council for Justice and Peace since 1980 as well as with Asia Partnership for Human Development, a Catholic International Development Organization (1989 ~ 1998).
She collaborated with UN Human Rights Committee and with HABITAT for the cause of Asian women and children(1988 ~1996).
She works for the reconciliation and recovery of justice of the women in Asia and Pacific Area coerced into army prostitution during WW II.

Publications

• Report on People's Development in Asia (1990)
• Issues of Environment and Development of the Squatters in Asia & Latin America (1992)
• Democratization of Asia and Women (1994)
• Guatemalan Indigenous Women (1997)
• Japanese translation of Sister Earth: Ecology and the Spirit by Helder Camara, (1998)
• Japanese translation of The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church by John Wijngaards (2005)

Professor Kari Elisabeth Børresen

Kari Elisabeth Børresen is Senior Professor (emerita) at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. International pioneer of Gender Studies in Religion, she started her research already in 1961. She is a specialist in historical Western theology from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance and has analysed the interaction of androcentric anthropology and Godlanguage in the formation of Christian doctrine.

She has introduced the term "matristics", in order to correlate the Greco-Roman enculturation of ancient Church Fathers (mainly third to fifth centuries) with the Northern European inculturation of medieval Church Mothers (mainly twelfth to fifteenth centuries), both considered to be leading agents in formative Christian theology.

Professor Børresen has been visiting professor at leading North-American and European universities and has co-ordinated several scholarly networks and international research groups.

A reforming Catholic, she is currently investigating the conflict between religious freedom and women's universal human rights, with focus on gender models in Christianity and Islam.

Professor Børresen has written many books and articles.

Honours

• 1992: Doctor theologiae honoris causa, Uppsala University.
• 1995-: Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

For more information, see:

• Professor Børresen's Curriculum Vitae
• Professor Børresen's Publications