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Dear catholic.com visitors: This Catholic Answers website, with all its free resources, is the world’s largest source of explanations for Catholic beliefs and practices. We receive no funding from the institutional Church and rely entirely on your generosity to sustain this website with trustworthy, accessible content. If every visitor this month donated $1, catholic.com would be fully funded for an entire year. If you’ve never made a gift, now is the time. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar this week only. Thanks and God bless.

Shelia O’Connor-Ambrose

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Sheila O’Connor-Ambrose holds a Ph. D. in women’s studies from Emory University. She is an independent scholar whose main academic interests include women writers, feminist theory, and the role of Catholicism in contemporary culture. A recipient of an H. B. Earhart Fellowship Grant, an Andrew J. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in Southern Studies, and an Emory University Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, O’Connor-Ambrose earned a bachelor’s degree from Thomas More College and a master’s degree from the University of Dallas. She is a fellow of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York, and she was appointed by Syracuse Bishop James Moynihan to serve a three-year term on the Diocesan Commission on Women in Church and Society. She and her husband, Douglas Ambrose, have three children: Antonia, Augusta, and Dominic.

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