Marjorie Tuite

Tuite's papers can be found at the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago (WLA). According to the WLA blog, "Judy Vaughn donated research materials about Tuite to the Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) in 1996. Vaughn intended to write a book about Tuite, and the amount of detail in the papers attests to Tuite’s complex and dedicated life."

Tuite died on June 28, 1986, aged 63, following her battle with pancreatic cancer.

Tuite was one of the "Vatican 24", religious sisters who had signed the Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion published in the New York Times on October 7, 1984. The Vatican, via the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, reacted by threatening the sisters with dismissal from their respective religious congregations if they did not retract their statements, in accordance with Church doctrine. Tuite appeared on The Phil Donahue Show on January 28, 1985, along with fellow signers Patricia Hussey and Barbara Ferraro, to defend their position. Tuite became terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, during which time she was under great pressure from her order to retract her statement.

By 1971, "she was one of the founders of NETWORK, a national Catholic justice group stressing social change through legislation." In late November 1975, Tuite was among the key organizers of the first International Women's Ordination Conference (WOC). She founded the Women's Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in Central America in 1982.

Tuite was a founder of and worked on a variety of different organizations. She was the Director of Ecumenical Action for Church Women United, and in 1970, she was among the founders of the National Assembly of Religious Women and served as its national coordinator.

As an educator, Tuite filled a variety of roles. From 1960-1966, "she worked as an administrator at St. Vincent Ferrer High School. Between 1973 and 1981 she was a member of the faculty at the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago. Before her tenure at the Jesuit School of Theology, she served on the staff on the National Urban Training Center and The Archdiocesan Center for Religious Education, both in Chicago."

She was born and raised in New York City and joined the Dominican Sisters of St Mary of the Springs Order (today Dominican Sisters of Peace) in 1942. She had an undergraduate degree from Fordham University, a master's degree from Manhattanville College in Education Theology, and a Doctor of Ministry from what is today University of Saint Mary of the Lake and Mundelein Seminary.

Marjorie Tuite, OP (October 15, 1922 – June 28, 1986) was a progressive activist on issues related to the Church and the larger world, such as racism, poverty, war and the ordination of women.