Mary Perkins Ryan

Mary Perkins Ryan (April 10, 1912 – October 12, 1993) was an American Catholic author, editor, and educator.

Biography

Mary Perkins was born in 1912 in Boston to Charles Perkins and Elizabeth Ward Perkins,[1] and was educated in New York City at Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. She married John Julian Ryan in 1942. Mary Perkins Ryan was the only married woman to attend the Liturgical Congress at Assisi, Italy, in 1956.[2]

Writings
  • At Your Ease in the Catholic Church (1937), as Mary Perkins.
  • Your Catholic Language (1940), as Mary Perkins.
  • Beginning At Home: The Challenge of Christian Parenthood (1955).
  • Are parochial schools the answer?: Catholic education in light of the council (1964).
  • Womanhood in America: from colonial times to present (1979).

Literature
  • Ann Morrow Heekin. Reclaiming a Lost Leader: Mary Perkins Ryan, Visionary in Modern Catholic Education // Religious Education, Volume 103, 2008 - Issue 2, pp. 196-217.
  • New Catholic Encyclopedia.
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References
  1. Katharine E. Harmon. There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, Liturgical Press, 2013, p. 272.
  2. http://liturgicalleaders.blogspot.ch/2008/11/mary-perkins-ryan.html
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