Deirdre McQuade named pro-life spokeswoman for U.S. bishops

Published: 2005-09-16

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A woman who has worked for the National Institutes of Health, Feminists for Life and a Midwest diocese has been chosen as the U.S. bishops' new spokeswoman on pro-life matters. Deirdre McQuade, who holds master's degrees in both philosophy and theology from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, took up her new post as director of planning and information in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities in early September. In addition to being spokeswoman, McQuade will be responsible for planning major outreach and advertising campaigns for the secretariat. She served most recently as a grant program analyst in the Office of Research on Women's Health at NIH. In 2003, she was national program director for Feminists for Life, overseeing the organization's college outreach program. From 1999 to 2002, she directed the Office of Pastoral Research in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., where she also served as an ecumenical officer.

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