Marjorie Tuite
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Sister Marjorie Tuite, OP (1922 - 1986) was a New York City-born and reared Dominican nun, known for her generally progressive stands on issues related to the Church and the larger world ([1]), such as poverty and war, but disliked, and, in some cases, vilified, in Traditionalist Catholic and conservative Roman Catholic communities, which regarded her and her supporters as "feminists", although it isn't clear if Sister Tuite considered herself a feminist. She aroused the ire of the Vatican as well, which is why one of her lectures on economic justice "was canceled by San Diego Bishop Leo T. Maher after the Vatican responded with the expulsion threat" ([2]).
As a conservative Catholic publication, Living Tradition ([3]) reported re Tuite's funeral Mass: on 29 June 1986, in the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer ... feminist friends crowded around the altar of sacrifice. In the words of feminist Ruth McDonough Fitzpatrick: 'At the consecration the priest on the altar was surrounded with women. He was trying to elbow them back to give him his sacred space. But all of us extended our hands and said the words of consecration.'
The publication concluded: In the best circumstances a celebrating priest has a delicate task in defending himself from 'the wickedness and snares of the Devil'.
See also: Pax Christi
