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Roddy O’Neil Cleary died on June 27, 2021, surrounded by family and friends. She was born Mary Francis O’Neil on November 5, 1932, in Miami Beach, Fla., to Pearl O’Neil and Thomas Francis O’Neil. Following her father s death in 1943, her family moved to New York, where she attended schools in Rye and New Rochelle.
In 1950, she entered Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., majoring in history. After graduating in 1954, she entered the convent of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. It was at this point that she took the name Sister Roderick in honor of her brother, Roderick O’Neil, and her patron saint, Alfonsus Rodriguez. This became the source of the nickname Roddy. After taking her final vows as a nun in 1962, she taught at Marymount and earned a master’s degree in theology from Fordham University
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To the Editor: As faith leaders from diverse theological backgrounds and denominations, we represent a variety of beliefs and viewpoints on complicated, moral issues. We write today as one religious community, and we write to stand with Vermontâs women. We come together in support of womenâs reproductive liberty and a womanâs right to choose.
At the heart of many laws restricting womenâs reproductive freedom is an assumption that women canât be trusted. That they are incapable of making ethical and moral decisions. This misogyny and inequality is in stark contrast to our religious beliefs.