Can Women Heal the Fractured Catholic Church? with Rosemary Ganley

March 25 at 2 p.m. EST, 3 p.m. AT, 11 a.m. PT

Rosemary will share her perspectives on the topic drawing on her varied and faith-filled journey as a writer, speaker and activist. Where do we find hope and vision in the current moment? What can we learn from where we have been?

Rosemary Ganley of Peterborough is a lifelong feminist activist and writer, who attended the Fourth UN Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.

She lived for six years in Jamaica and Tanzania, and with her husband John founded the development agency “Jamaican Self Help” in 1980. She published a book on this experience: “Jamaica Journal: the Story of a grassroots Canadian Aid Organization.

Rosemary gave the Margaret Laurence Lecture at Trent on feminist theologies in 2011, and now writes a weekly column for the Peterborough Examiner.

She was assistant editor of the independent newspaper Catholic New Times in Toronto 2001-2006. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto STAR, the Peterborough Examiner, The Green Teacher and Conscience magazine.

Rosemary has three sons and eight grandchildren. She has been inducted into the Peterborough Pathway of Fame.

In 2018 she was invited by Prime Minister Trudeau to sit on the 19- person Gender Equality Advisory Council for the G7 meetings in June in Quebec, where she met with G7 leaders. In June 2022, Rosemary was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by Trent University.