Sister Anne E. Patrick, SNJM
Sister Susan Margaret
April 5, 1941 – July 21, 2016
Sister Anne departed this life on July 21, 2016 at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. She had celebrated 75 years of life and 56 years of religious profession.
Sister Anne E. Patrick, SNJM
Sister Susan Margaret
April 5, 1941 – July 21, 2016
Sr. Anne E. Patrick, SNJM, aged 75, died peacefully on July 21, 2016, in Silver Spring, Maryland. She was William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts, emerita, at Carleton College and author of numerous articles and several books on feminist theology, most recently Conscience and Calling: Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women’s Church Vocations. A member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Anne received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, joining Carleton’s religion department in 1980 and becoming the department’s first tenured woman professor. After nearly thirty years of dedicated teaching and mentoring, she retired in 2009, but continued to write until her last weeks on the promise of women’s leadership in the Catholic Church.
Anne was a president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and a founding vice-president of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology. As chair of the Committee on Women in Church and Society of the National Assembly of Women Religious, she helped to plan the 1975 Women’s Ordination Conference. Anne was preceded in death by her parents, William and Estelle F. Patrick, and her sister, Peggy Patrick Miles. She is survived by members of her religious congregation; by sisters and brothers-in-law Helen Patrick Varner (Jerry), Maureen F. Patrick (Robert Selig), Eugene L. Miles, III (Mary Petr), Susan Patrick Inzeo (Nick), and Mary Patrick Garate (John); by nieces and nephews and by 29 great-nieces and nephews. A Memorial Mass will be held on Sat, Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. at Annunciation Catholic Church, Washington, DC. A memorial service will also be held at the Carleton College Chapel in Northfield on Sat., Oct. 29 at 2 p.m., with a reception immediately following in the Severance Great Hall.