Obituary: Anne Patrick, Catholic feminist theologian, supported ordination of women

By Aimee Blanchette
Star Tribune
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016 — 4:43PM

The Catholic Church says women cannot be ordained as priests, but Anne Patrick was never one to take “no” for an answer.

Throughout her career as a Catholic religion professor at Carleton College and a feminist theologian, Patrick remained optimistic that women, one day, could be leaders in the Catholic Church.

In an article she wrote in 2015, Patrick noted that while Pope Francis said the door was closed on women’s ordination to the priesthood, “he did not say it is nailed shut and sealed for all eternity.”

Patrick, 75, died July 21 after a 14-year battle with breast cancer.

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