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Marylouise Fennell
Marylouise Fennell (1939–2022) was an American religious sister, educator, and academic administrator. She was the president of Carlow University from 1982 to 1989. Early life and education Fennell was born in 1939, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She entered the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas in 1957, following high school. She earned a bachelor's degree from the Diocesan Sisters College Diocesan Sisters College was a sisters' college in Bloomfield, Connecticut Bloomfield is a suburb of Hartford in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The town's population was 21,535 at the 2020 census. Bloomfield is best known as the he ... in 1961, a master's degree from the University of Hartford in 1972, and a Ph.D. in education from Boston University in 1976. She held post-doctoral appointments at Harvard University and the University of Connecticut. Career Fennell was a clinical professor at the University of Hartford from 1971 to 1974, and a teaching fellow at Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religious Sister
A religious sister (abbreviated ''Sr.'' or Sist.) in the Catholic Church is a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer. Both nuns and sisters use the term "sister" as a form of address. The ''HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism'' (1995) defines as "congregations of sisters institutes of women who profess the simple vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, live a common life, and are engaged in ministering to the needs of society." As William Saunders writes: "When bound by simple vows, a woman is a sister, not a nun, and thereby called 'sister'. Nuns recite the Liturgy of the Hours or Divine Office in common ... ndlive a contemplative, cloistered life in a monastery ... behind the 'papal enclosure'. Nuns are permitted to leave the cloister only under special circumstances and with the proper permission." History Until the 16th century, relig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
