Power Behind Church
Women were the power behind the church and they should take a leading role in its affairs, the Rev. R. M. O’Grady told the Inter-Church School for women yesterday. Mr O’Grady, who is as-sistant-general secretary of the National Council of Churches, said he had discussed this point in Rome recently with a re-
presentatlve of the Secretariat of Christian Unity. “One of this man’s jobs was to lecture to nuns at the Vatican College and I suggested that it would surely be more effective to sell the secretariat’s ideas in lectures to priests and cardinals,” Mr O’Grady said. The reply was: “Don’t
you believe It. The real power in the Catholic Church are the nuns. When they get their teeth into something, nothing will stop them—not even the Pope.” Mr O’Grady said he was pleased to assure him that it was the same in the Protestant Church. Women were the force in getting things done.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 2
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