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RDCCW meets to greet ‘A New Day and New Year’

A group of 80 women from 10 Richmond area Catholic Churches attended the Richmond Diocesan Council of Catholic Women’s “A New Day and a New Year” held at the new Catholic Diocese Pastoral Center on Jan. 5.

The reorganized RDCCW sought to answer the questions “What is the RDCCW?” and “Why should they belong?”

Liz Schiavone, president of the Arlington Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, representing the Baltimore Province director, Wendy Sellier, shared with the women what Arlington is doing and the contributions she herself had made to the National Council of Catholic Women in the new Spirituality Manual.

Barbara Hughes of Norfolk, a regularly featured columnist for The Catholic Virginian and the Bishop’s Liaison to the Jewish and Muslim communities, opened the meeting with prayer and summarized her new position and its plans.

The coordinators of the reorganized RDCCW, Louise Hartz, Maggie Disney and Kathleen Petty, presented the “What is RDCCW” with the consistent theme of their roles of Leadership, Service and Spirituality through involvement in the RDCCW.

The RDCCW was organized in the spring of 1946 by Bishop Peter L. Ireton, realizing the need for Catholic lay women to gather.

Feedback was requested from the attendees on “Why they should belong.”

In addition to the coordinators, the committee included E. Mary Cargill and Virginia Hudert. Sister Juliana Paladini, of the Comboni Missionary Sisters gave the blessing before lunch.

For information on the RDCCW, contact Louise Hartz at 804–741–2487.

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