Contributions of Women (Leaving Cert Religious Education): Flashcards

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Communities both women served

Marginalised, vulnerable, overlooked members of society

Types of people both women focused on

Rejected, forgotten, or discriminated against people

Effect of both women's work on church authorities

Compelled them to respond & take meaningful action

How Prejean carried out her mission

Through established religious institutional frameworks

What McAuley faced from church institutions

Pressure to enter formal religious life as a nun

Why McAuley became a nun

Feared church would remove her from work without it

Prejean's freedom in choosing service method

Greater freedom to choose her approach

McAuley's constraint from church authorities

More constrained; required formal religious commitment

Social attitudes that benefited Prejean

More progressive attitudes toward women's religious work

Church control in McAuley's era

Stricter control over women's religious activities

What McAuley's era required for legitimacy

Formal religious vows

Modern church attitudes towards service

Greater flexibility in how individuals can contribute

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