Rosemary Goldie

Rosemary Goldie (born February 1, 1916 in Manly , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia , † February 27, 2010 ibid) was an Australian Roman Catholic theologian .

biography

Goldie, who grew up with her grandmother and in a religious institution, studied art after attending school and received a scholarship from the Republic of France to study at the University of Paris Sorbonne in 1936 , where she began her involvement in the Roman Empire under the influence of the philosopher Jacques Maritain. Catholic lay movement .

In the 1940s she started working for the international student organization Pax Romana in Friborg in Üechtland ( Switzerland ). As early as 1951 she was active for the 1st World Congress of the Laity Church in Rome and subsequently began studying Catholic theology at the Mission Academy of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide and at two other papal universities . In 1964 she was one of the first women to be admitted to the Second Vatican Council , which took place between 1962 and 1965.

In 1967 she was founded by Pope Paul VI. appointed undersecretary in the newly created, but still provisional, Pontifical Council for the Laity (Pontificium Consilium pro Laicis) . She was the first woman ever to hold a leadership position in the Vatican . Only Enrica Rosanna in the religious congregation and, most recently, Flaminia Giovanelli in the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (Pontificium Consilium de Iustitia et Pace) achieved such a high-ranking position .

After the provisional Pontifical Council for the Laity was established on December 10, 1976 by the Motu Proprio Apostolatus Peragendi as a permanent dicastery within the Roman Curia , their position ceased as part of the restructuring.

She herself then accepted a position as professor of pastoral theology at the Pontifical Lateran University . After her retirement , she continued to work there as a tutor and as such also the supervisor of students in the preparation of scientific papers.

The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell , praised Goldie as "a great champion of lay Catholics". Regardless of her petite figure, she worked energetically and tirelessly for the role of women in the Church. In 2002 Goldie had traveled to Rome to attend a meeting of the Pontifical Lay Council.

On the occasion of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. in Australia (2008) he paid her a visit to her residence in a nursing home in Sydney.

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• NEWS.AT: "First woman to lead the Vatican - Rosemary Goldie dead" (March 1, 2010)