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

Fonds

Identifier: ARW

Staff Only

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.

Dates

Creation: 1968-[ongoing]

Creator

National Assembly of Religious Women (Organization)

Language of Materials

English.

Conditions Governing Access

Box 57 and 58 contain materials that are RESTRICTED indefinitely.

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)