Dolores R Leckey

Dolores R. Leckey has been a senior research fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center since 1998 where she is currently coordinator of a new project, Theology in the City. She served twenty years as executive director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Recipient of numerous awards, including twelve honorary doctorates, St. John's University Elizabeth Ann Seton medal, Washington Theological Union's distinguished service award,...See more

Dolores R. Leckey has been a senior research fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center since 1998 where she is currently coordinator of a new project, Theology in the City. She served twenty years as executive director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Recipient of numerous awards, including twelve honorary doctorates, St. John's University Elizabeth Ann Seton medal, Washington Theological Union's distinguished service award, Leckey is author of nine books and general editor of Just War, Lasting Peace: What Christian Traditions Can Teach Us. The mother of four and grandmother of seven, with her late husband she is a founder of the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing. She resides in Arlington, Virginia, where in 2003 the Commission on the Status of Women named her a "Person of Vision." See less