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
The program will be directed by Merrill Ware Carrington, a retreat leader and Episcopal laywoman.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2013
A Catholic laywoman, Anne Barrett Doyle, who lives in Boston, suggested they should meet.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2013
It was reasonable to suppose that a laywoman would not succeed where physicians had failed.
From The Sex Side of Life An Explanation for Young People by Dennett, Mary
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
Dhammananda contends that Buddha built the religion as a four-legged stool — monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
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
As a result, many laymen and laywomen nowadays insist upon a thorough examination of their own person and the person of their future partner, when there is nothing the matter with either.
From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by Robinson, William J.
