The Legacy of Las Hermanas

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:: Livestream available

:: DePaul Student Center, Rm. 314AB (3rd floor)

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5:30pm ~ Dinner for in-person guests*
6:00pm ~ Livestream begins**
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Join Amirah Orozco, a theology doctoral student at Notre Dame, for the final talk in this year's "Catolicismo, Cultura y Comida" series, organized by CWCIT and Tepeyac/Catholic Campus Ministry. Orozco offers us a look at some of the history of the organization of Latina Catholic women known as Las Hermanas and their importance for Latine Catholics today.

Las Hermanas organized in the wake of the Second Vatican Council in light of the simultaneous Chicano Movement in the U.S., fortifying an identity as Latinas, Catholics, and feminists. The women took seriously their roles as baptized Catholics to advocate for the voices of Latine people to be heard, both in and outside of the Church.

Today, they can help us begin to imagine what our roles are in the ongoing political and social struggles for justice. In this talk, you'll be invited to ask questions about the connections between faith and justice as well as the role of justice in how we organize our churches and faith communities.

* Limited seating; light dinner will be served, including pan dulce y cafe.

** Livestreamed on

August 1985—Demonstrators at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, during the Third (III) Encuentro, "Prophetic Voices: Evangelization." (To learn about this event, .)
The Encuentros began in 1972; they are national gatherings of Hispanic American Catholics, both lay & religious, and included the participation of Las Hermanas. (Photo courtesy of Our Lady of the Lake University Archives, San Antonio, TX.)

A theology doctoral student at Notre Dame, Amirah Orozco has a BA in philosophy and political science (Boston College) and an MTS from the Boston College Clough School of Theology & Ministry. She comes to academic theology through questions of liberation and emancipation of the poor and marginalized. With a minor in Women's & Gender Studies, she is most interested in feminist as well as decolonial theologies.

Her dissertation is on the thought of Ignacio Ellacuría, one of the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador. She currently serves as a graduate coordinator of the Working Group on Óscar Romero in Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies. She is also a Gaia Fellow through the Institute of Latino Studies.

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