by Michele Genthon | Jan 7, 2015 | FIRST WOMEN, Religion
Last month Libby Lane was appointed the first female bishop of the Church of England. It was a long time coming. Since 1861 women have been deaconesses in the Church of England but no women became full deacons until 1987. During the First World War women were...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 25, 2014 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Religion
A descendant of the founders of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Katharine Drexel was born into a philanthropic family. At a private audience with Pope Leo XIII, Katharine asked the Pope to send missionaries to the Native Americans whose plight had come to her...
