America Magazine: Sister Theresa Kane, who challenged St. John Paul II on women’s roles in the church, dies at 87

Born in 1936 to Irish immigrants from County Galway, Sister Theresa and her six siblings were raised by their parents in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. She entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1955 in Tarrytown, New York. She received a bachelor of arts degree in economics in 1959 from Manhattanville College, a master’s degree in public administration from New York University in 1986, and a master’s in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College in 1993.

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