New York Times: Ruth Fitzpatrick, Crusader for Letting Women Be Priests, Dies at 90
Ruth Fitzpatrick, who felt she was called to the Roman Catholic priesthood beginning as a teenager and later helped lead a movement to press the church to stop barring women like her from being ordained, died on June 15 in Fairfax, Va. She was 90.
The cause was cerebral arteriosclerosis, her son John Fitzpatrick said.
Ms. Fitzpatrick’s insistence that the church was a sexist institution that needed to treat women as equals landed her in the leadership of the Women’s Ordination Conference, a national grass-roots advocacy group that has pushed for the church to ordain women as priests since the mid-1970s.