Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Griffin-Kelley-Bohn team was serving the Harvard community, they provided a ministry which was significantly different in nature from the present team of Boles, Rev. Thomas F. Powers and Evelyn Ronan S.N.D...
...came to see myself emphasize the political and social implications of being a Catholic-Christian," Griffin said, "and I felt a special obligation to those in the community who found difficulty in being a Catholic...
Kelley concurs with Griffin's assessment but also saw the nature of her ministry shift to deal directly with the relationship of the feminist movement to the life of the Catholic woman. "While I perceived our total ministry as an attempt to present an alternative style of ministry--an attempt to be democratic and collegiate in our decision-making, I personally became increasingly aware of the oppression of women in church history...
...issue of oppression which Kelley speaks of not only goes unrecognized by the Church hierarchy but to a certain extent according to both Kelley and Griffin it is not confronted by the Catholic women at Radcliffe. Griffin says he feels that the feminism of Kelley and Bohn "kind of scared off Radcliffe women--women who had conservative Catholic backgrounds were somewhat intimidated." Kelley agrees that growing up as a Catholic woman is an experience that leaves an indelible mark, and that while there is a strong resentment to that experience on the part of older women, "the resentment...
Aside from its more political emphasis, the ousted ministry was also markedly different from the present Student Center's chaplaincy in its relationship with St. Paul's. Griffin said, "I felt that I could provide a different angle--something distinctive from the parish clergy. As a Jesuit I had more freedom than the parish clergy and I became very doubtful of the parish as an institution. It was too closed to the dissident Catholics who were concerned with social issues and who were not receiving support from the institutional Church...