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The Relevance of Religious Life with a True Mary Ward Woman, Gemma Simmonds, CJ

Gemma Simmonds is a sister of the Congregation of Jesus. An honorary fellow of Durham University and past president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, she studied at the universities of Paris, London, Rio de Janeiro and Cambridge for degrees in modern languages and theology. She is an ecumenical canon of the Church in Wales and chair of trustees of the Community of St. Anselm at Lambeth Palace. She taught theology at Heythrop College, London before returning to Cambridge to be a senior research fellow at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology where she is director of the Religious Life Institute. Gemma has been a missionary in Brazil, a chaplain in the Universities of Cambridge and London and a volunteer chaplain in Holloway Prison. She broadcasts regularly on religious matters for the BBC and has published extensively in spirituality, the theology of religious life and ecclesiology. 

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Executive Producers: Megan Beutel and Jennifer Schmitz
Special Contributor: Carol Banasiak
Sound Track: Laurenti Wright on keyboard

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