page_title: A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion
section_title: Other signers
hierarchical_section_title: A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion / Signers / Other signers
caption_attribution_description: Prof. Knitter in Salzburg, Austria
context_page_description: A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, alternatively referred to by its pull quote "A Diversity of Opinions Regarding Abortion Exists Among Committed Catholics" or simply "The New York Times ad", was a full-page advertisement placed on October 7, 1984, in The New York Times by Catholics for a Free Choice. Its publication brought to a head the conflict between the Vatican and those American Catholics who were pro-choice. The publicity and controversy which followed its publication helped to make the CFFC an important element of the pro-choice movement.
  Before mid-1984, a Catholic position paper was signed by about 80 reform-minded theologians and members of religious institutes who were sympathetic to choice in abortion. This position paper was used by CFFC as the basis for the New York Times ad. CFFC's statement said that the Catholic Church's doctrine condemning abortion as "morally wrong in all instances" was "not the only legitimate Catholic position."
context_section_description: Ronald Burke, Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha, co-founder of The Journal of Religion & Film.
  Anne Carr, nun and theologian at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
  Patty Crowley, long-term co-leader of the Christian Family Movement.
  Margaret Farley, Ph.D., Yale Divinity School
  Barbara Ferraro, nun with Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
  Maureen Fiedler, Ph.D., S.L., nun, pacifist, and activist for the Equal Rights Amendment 1978 to 1982. Fiedler attended the first Women's Ordination Conference in Detroit in 1975.
  Christine E. Gudorf, Ph.D., Xavier University
  Patricia Hussey, nun with Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
  Paul F. Knitter, Th.D., Xavier University
  Agnes Mary Mansour, former nun, director of the Michigan Department of Social Services, former president of the University of Detroit Mercy.
  Kathleen E. McVey, Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary
  Jeanne L. Noble, Ph.D., New York University
  Dolly Pomerleau, co-founder of the Quixote Center
  Donna Quinn, nun, past president of the National Coalition of American Nuns.
  Jill Raitt, Ph.D., University of Missouri
  Jane Schaberg, Ph.D., University of Detroit
  Margaret Ellen Traxler, nun with the School Sisters of Notre Dame, co-founder of the National Coalition of American Nuns
  Marjorie Tuite, Dominican nun, native New Yorker, feminist
  Judith Vaughan, nun, director of the House of Ruth shelter for women, Los Angeles
  Elizabeth Jane Via, district attorney, female priest, professor at University of San Diego
  Mary Jo Weaver, author
  Arthur E. Zannoni, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
caption: Paul F. Knitter in 2007
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