Wollongong Mass for women's league

Sydney
3 February 2002

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Wollongong Mass for women's league

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Wollongong Mass for women's league

The new NSW-based national executive of the Catholic Women's League has been installed at a special Mass at St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong.

The steel city is home to the league's new national president, Peg McEntee (pictured), who will hold the presidency for the next two years. Two vice-presidents, Margaret Bartley and Daphne Peterson, will support her. The new national secretary is Gladys Meaney-Budd and national treasurer, Roseleen Goldie

Doreen Ford will handle publicity with support from Catholic Women's League photographer Noeline Kelly, who recently featured in an In Conversation in The Catholic Weekly. Mons Vince Redden was re-elected as the league's spiritual director. He is also chairman of the board of this newspaper.

The Catholic Women's League sees itself as a mainstream Church organisation. Historically, it has attracted homemakers and these have gracefully grown older with the organisation.

But now the league wants to broaden its appeal and attract younger, working women, too, as so many more women are in today's work force.

It will retain its traditional focus on practical Church work, but also aims to expand its role and look to women taking leadership roles in the Church.