laywoman
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María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, known as Mama Antula, was an 18th-Century laywoman who is considered by some to be Argentina's first feminist.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024
Mama Antula was an 18th century laywoman who ministered to the poor and helped keep Jesuit spirituality alive in Argentina after the religious order — to which the pope belongs — was suppressed.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
Each time he travels out of Italy, Francis plucks one layman or laywoman from the Vatican to join his entourage.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2015
A Catholic laywoman, Anne Barrett Doyle, who lives in Boston, suggested they should meet.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2013
But when you speak of man acting as a unit he is a layman, but you never say a laywoman.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Marietta Holley
The Bishop agrees but insists that since no other Franciscans are female, Aleys must be sent to the nearby Beguines — laywomen who take no vows, live in community and work to support the church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
He has also named women — laywomen and religious sisters — as consultors to Vatican offices dominated by male clergy, including the one that chooses bishops.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
When Gregory arrived, he made Pehle a full-time administrator, as well as, eventually, 12 other nuns and laywomen who were given the title “parish life coordinators.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2019
So, theologically speaking, laypeople, including laywomen, can be cardinals.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2018
It was, in fact, very little more than the education possessed by laywomen of the same social rank outside and there is little trace of anything approaching scholarship.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
