Maureen Fiedler
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Sister Maureen Fiedler, Sister of Loretto, Ph.D is a progressive, sometimes controversial activist within the Roman Catholic Church. She has a long history working with interfaith coalitions on a variety of issues including: social justice, peace, anti-racism work, gender equality, human rights and female ordination to the Catholic Church. She holds a Ph.D in Government from Georgetown University.
She has hosted the radio program Interfaith Voices since it debuted in 2002. Starting with just one station, the show has grown to 43 stations in the United States and Canada. The program began as a project of The Quixote Center, a non-sectarian non-profit collective in Brentwood, MD. It later became a separately incorporated non-profit for tax reasons. Interfaith Voices had been previously called Faith Matters. However, due to a trademark dispute, the name was changed. Faith Matters is the name of a program still produced by the Rev. Dr. Leith Anderson, now president of the National Association of Evangelicals. In 2007, Interfaith Voices interviewed Rev. Anderson after he assumed the NAE presidency from Rev. Ted Haggard. The program's mission is the promotion of interfaith understanding and religious dialog in the public square.
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Fiedler received a card from the now-deceased Sister Mary Luke Tobin when Fiedler was involved in an "uncertain venture" regarding women's ordination. It read: "Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." [1]
In 2007, Fiedler interviewed her fellow public radio counterpart Krista Tippett. Tippett is the host of Speaking of Faith, produced by American Public Media.
Interfaith Voices has had six producers since it began. Among them are Peter Collins, who now owns KRXA-AM in Monterrey, CA; Paul Woodhull, executive producer of The Bill Press Show; Josephine Reed, host of WPFW-FM radio show On The Margin and a vice president for programming for XM Satellite Radio; and John E. Parman.
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- ^ http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/nt082506.htm National Catholic Reporter obituary for Sister Mary Luke Tobin
