We Are Church (Ireland): Zoom – March 27 @ 7.30pm – Synodality: Hope for the Church, and for the world, … and for women?
Synodality: Hope for the Church, and for the world, … and for women?
Mary T. Barron O.L.A. will talk about her experience of being at the Synod as a woman with voting rights, and the necessary struggles involved in continuing to ‘fight the good fight’ for women in the church to be heard.
Mary T Barron from Donegal, joined the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles in 1992. She worked in Tanzania for some years before returning to Ireland to work on the Mission Alive project with the Irish Missionary Union. Mary served on the Provincial Leadership Council of the OLA in Ireland and since 2013 has been based in Rome serving first as a Councillor and since 2018 as the Congregational Leader. She has been serving on the Board of the International Union of Superiors General since 2019, as vice president since 2022 and president since 2023. She was appointed in 2024 by Pope Francis as a Member of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches.