University of Notre Dame
Archives   

Notre Dame Archives

National Assembly of Religious Women (U.S.) Records

ARW National Assembly of Religious Women (U.S.) Records 1968-[ongoing]
Origination : National Assembly of Religious Women (U.S.)
Extent : 83 linear feet 23 audio cassettes 1 video cassette 1 16mm film 2 linear feet of photographs
Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

Preferred Citation

National Assembly of Religious Women (U.S.) Records (ARW), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Correspondence, organizational records, budgets, newsletters, surveys, memoranda, printed matter, clippings, cassettes, films, and photographs; concerning justice, the role of women in the church, economic and racial inequality, nuclear disarmament, and U.S. policy in Central America. Correspondents include Sisters Ethne Kennedy, SSJ, Marjorie Tuite, OP, Merle Nolde, OSB, Catherine Pinkerton, CSJ, Mary O'Keefe, OP, and Kathleen Keating, SSJ.

Background

A grassroots organization formally established in 1970 to foster intercommunity collaboration among American Roman Catholic religious women. NARW's central office collected information from organizations such as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Women's Ordination Conference, United Farm Workers of America, Dignity, and Catholics Act for ERA (the Equal Rights Amendment). NARW was originally known as the National Assemly of Women Religious (NAWR)

Index : 

 National Assembly of Religious Women (U.S.) 
 Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the United States 
 Women's Ordination Conference 
 United Farm Workers 
 Dignity / USA 
 Catholics Act for ERA 
 Social justice 
 Poverty 
 Racism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church 
 Nuclear disarmament 
 Women in church work -- Catholic Church 
 Women and religion 
 Monasticism and religious orders for women 
 Kennedy, Ethne 
 Tuide, Marjorie 
 Nolde, Merle 
 Pinkerton, Catherine 
 O'Keefe, Mary 
 Keating, Kathleen

Next : ARW002