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110	2 |aMassachusetts Women-Church Convergence
245	10|aMassachusetts Women-Church Convergence records|f1987-2008.
300	|a6.5|flinear feet.
351	|aSeries 1: Administrative, 1987-2008, n.d., Series 2: Events and Conferences, 1988-2006, Series 3: News Articles, 1982-2006, Series 4: Photos and Scrapbooks, 1990-2006, Series 5: Audio/Visual Materials, 1991-2007, Series 6: Three Dimensional Objects, 2005;|bArranged alphabetically.
545	|aIn 1988, Marie Sheehan and Dorothy Conceison founded the Massachusetts Women Church with the goal of eliminating sexism within the Catholic Church. As a member of the Women Church Convergence, the Massachusetts Women Church worked to support the ordination of women through annual conferences, awareness campaigns, and respectful witnessings at male ordination ceremonies. The organization consisted of ten to twelve active core group members who met once a month to plan activities and conferences that promoted the eradication of sexism and church hierarchy. They also had a quarterly newspaper with a mailing list of over a thousand people in the New England area. Their annual conferences drew over 200 people on average, and often featured nationally known feminist theologians, such as Rosemary Radford Ruether, Joan Chittister, and Theresa Kane. Additionally, the Massachusetts Women Church formed a charitable component of their group called the Lost Coin Womens Fund. The fund provided scholarships to low income women looking to improve their lives through education. In 2007, after almost twenty years of activity, the Massachusetts Women Church decided to formally discontinue their work.
520	2 |aThe Massachusetts Women Church Records consists of materials that date to the groups founding in 1988 to its dissolution in 2007 and 2008. The records include extensive administrative records, conference materials, newspaper articles relating to both the group in particular and to womens issues within the Catholic Church, photographs, scrapbooks, video tapes, and the recorded oral history of the organization.
506	|aSome restrictions may apply.
546	|aIn English.
555	0 |aFinding aid available in repository;|cfolder level.
544	|nSee also the Chicago Catholic Women Records, the Chicago Women-Church Records, and the Women-Church Convergence Records in the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago.
500	|aConsult repository for information on possible additions to this collection that are not covered by this description.
599	|aCRRA|b2011-09-16
610	20|aMassachusetts Women-Church Convergence|vArchives.
610	20|aCatholic Church.|bArchdiocese of Boston (Mass.)
610	20|aCatholic Church.
650	0|aWomen in the Catholic Church.
650	0|aOrdination of women|xCatholic Church.
710	2 |aLoyola University of Chicago.|bWomen and Leadership Archives.
852	|aLoyola University of Chicago.|bWomen and Leadership Archives.|eChicago, Illinois.
994	|aC0|bIAL