- Sister Margaret Farley
A Sister of Mercy, Sister Margaret A. Farley,
Ph.D is an ethicist and the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at theYale Divinity School . She was the first woman appointed to serve full-time on the YDS faculty and shared withHenri Nouwen the distinction of being the first Roman Catholic faculty member at the Divinity School. She now has the status of professor emerita.She began her career at Yale Divinity School in 1971 and earned her Ph.D. there two years later. She appeared on the cover of the
Yale Alumni Magazine in 1986 in connection with a feature article on teachers of note. She has written six books to date, including "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Social Ethics" published in 2006 by the Continuum International Publishing Group.She received the John Courtney Murray Award from the
Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA). She has served as president of both the CTSA as well as the Society of Christian Ethics.In 2008 she received the
Grawemeyer Award in Religion. ["Yale Scholar wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion" Jason M. Breslow. "Chronicle of Higher Education" [http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=3572&at Dec. 6, 2007] ] .She participated in the
Sisters of Mercy study ontubal ligation . She has also followed, in particular, the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference pastoral letter on the role of women as well as a special international synod called byPope John Paul II to reassess the results ofVatican II "in light of new needs".All-Africa Conference
Sister Farley and Sister Eileen P. Hogan founded the All-Africa Conference, a project intended to bring together African women religious to develop strategies for responding to the pandemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa. [http://www.sjc.edu/content.cfm/pageid/7127]
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Links
*http://archivesdestan.blogspot.com/2005_04_03_archive.html
*http://www.yale.edu/divinity/notes/050516/notes_050516_mf.shtml
*http://www.yale.edu/divinity/cv/MFARLEY.pdf
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