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Sister Jose Hobday
Franciscan nun and Seneca Elder
"I say to the bishops, 'You still don?t know that God is a woman?' If I don?t see girls on the altar I complain. My mother said that institutions move a hundred times more slowly than the people do, so I stick with the people."
Born in Texas to a Seneca-Iroquois mother and a Southern Baptist father, Sister Jose Hobday is a Seneca elder and a Sister of Franciscan Order. She brings her ministry to truck stops and prisons in the poorest diocese in the United States, Gallup, New Mexico. Lectures and workshops also keep her traveling 75,000 miles a year, cut back from 150,000 as a concession to her age. She has a Masters' degrees in theology, literature, Architecture and Space Engineering, she calls herself a "Student of life" and a Missionary-at-large." Interested in promoting the ordination of women and finding women spiritual leaders in other traditions to work with. She has written a wise little book called Simple Living: The Path to Joy and Freedom.
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