The first lecture of the Speakers Series will be conducted on Zoom on February 25, 2021. Monthly topics will follow through May of 2021 and then break for the summer months, resuming in September.
Please join us to welcome our first speaker, Betty Anne Donnelly on February 25, 2021 at 7:00PM. The title of her talk is: Women in the Church, Women Leadership.

Elizabeth A. Donnelly is the Co-Founder of and Preacher Coordinator for the website Catholic Women Preach. She is a frequent speaker and writer on Catholic affairs.  As a trustee of a Catholic family foundation, she is part of a group of female foundation leaders who have engaged in dialogue with top Vatican officials on the role of women in the Church since 2007. After graduating Georgetown University (SFS ’78), she served on the staffs of Bread for the World and the Presidential Commission on World Hunger and as a Maryknoll Lay Missioner in Lima, Peru. She studied Christian social ethics at Harvard Divinity School (MTS’85) and did doctoral work in international political economy and ethics in Harvard’s Department of Government, writing extensively on the Catholic Church’s contribution to the movement for debt relief for heavily indebted low-income countries. She has served on several boards, including those of Jesuit Volunteers International, Maryknoll Lay Missioners, Bread for the World, the Gregorian University Foundation, Orbis Books, FADICA, Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities, and the Ignatian Solidarity Network.

She and her husband have three daughters, two educated at Georgetown and one at Loyola Maryland. She grew up in Pittsburgh, was a parishioner at Sacred Heart Parish, and attended the Mount Mercy Campus School (now Carlow) and Our Lady of Mercy Academy.