Tuite, Marjorie, Sister

Born 1922, New York City; died 1986. Feminist and social justice activist; Director, Ecumenical Action for Church Women United; Founder, Women's Coalition to Stop Intervention in Central America; Professor, Member of Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs.

Marjorie Tuite, O.P. was a member of Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs Order in Columbus, Ohio, having made her profession in 1942. In addition to her degree from Fordham University in New York, she received a master's degree in education theology from Manhattanville College, also in New York, and a doctor of ministry from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Chicago. From 1960 until 1966, Sr. Marjorie worked as an administrator at St. Vincent Ferrer High School. Between 1973-1981, she was a member of the faculty at the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago. Sr. Marjorie's organizational participation strongly reflected her commitment to social justice. She was the Director of Ecumenical Action for Church Women United as well as a leader within the organization. In addition, she was coordinator of the National Assembly of Church Women and the National Association of Religious Women (previously known as National Association of Women Religious). In 1971, she was one of the founders of NETWORK, a national Catholic justice group stressing social change through legislation. In 1982, she founded the Women's Coalition to Stop Intervention in Central America. In the 1980s, she travelled extensively through Central America in a variety of capacities, working primarily in Nicaragua and El Salvador. In 1984, Sr. Marjorie served as a delegate to the First Congress on Human Rights in El Salvador. After her death on June 28, 1986, Sr. Marjorie's remains were brought to Nicaragua to be buried at her request alongside the heroes and martyrs of Nicaragua.