Margaret Farley, Date of Birth

Margaret Farley

American Sister of Mercy and theologian

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1935

Profession: writer, author, theologian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Margaret A.
Farley (born April 15, 1935) is an American religious sister and a member of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy.
She was Gilbert L.
Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School, where she taught Christian ethics from 1971 to 2007. Farley is the first woman appointed to serve full-time on the Yale School board, along with Henri Nouwen as its first Catholic faculty members.
She is a past president of Catholic Theological Society of America.Farley's controversial book, Just Love (2006), brought criticism and censure from the Holy See, specifically the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for moral views which oppose the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, but her book and views has received both support and endorsement from the groups Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Catholic Theological Society of America.