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1. This remarkable and gifted quiet achiever has been one of my inspirations for many years. She is a loss for the Church and all of us. She has given an impeccable example for all laity.

   Posted By: Bev Hincks

2. From 1972-1975, I studied for a doctorate in Canon Law in Rome. My thesis was on the International Laity Council of which Rosemary Goldie was under-secretary.
   I owe a great debt of gratitude to this remarkable woman for all the help and encouragement she gave me.

   Posted By: (Bishop) Pat Power

3. A truly wonderful catholic woman.
   Her book 'From a Roman Window' (1977) has much to offer us even
   now. May she rest in Peace.

   Posted By: david anthony davies

4. A member of the Grail, we don't hear much at all about them. Why are they called so?
   My cousin Moya Merrick did a lot of good as an architect and life member + resident of the Grail.

   Posted By: Louise Jeffree

5. Her book From a Roman Window indicates that the laity were very active before Vatican 11. It is important history. May this wonderful person rest in peace.

   Posted By: Mackie

6. Tribute to Rosemary Goldie
   Rosemary Goldie was born in Australia in 1916. At the age of 20, after graduation in her homeland, she came to Paris to study at the Sorbonne University. She took part in the activities of the women-student chaplaincy, which was affiliated to Pax Romana. In 1937, the Pax Romana International Congress was held in Paris and she attended it. The theme was: the formation of the student. In 1938, the international Congress was held in Vaduz (Lichtenstein, a little Duchy between Switzerland and Austria), and Rosemary Goldie was so much part of the Pax Romana family that she participated in that event as delegate of France since no other women-student was available !
   During wartime (1939-1945), the Australian student movement got affiliated to Pax Romana through the international office, in that time in Washington. And as Rosemary Goldie came back to Europe after war, she participated in the “founding meetings” 1946-1947 which saw, under the umbrella title Pax Romana, the creation of the student movement (IMCS) and the professional-intellectual movement (ICMICA). In the new ICMICA secretariat located in Fribourg (Switzerland), an English-speaking staff member was badly needed. So Rosemary accepted this task under the guidance of the newly elected general secretary Ramon Sugranyes de Franch. She spent six years there. She was active in the “historical” Pax Romana meetings: general assembly in Amsterdam with the Pie XII message (“Be everywhere present in the vanguard of the intellectual combat…”), pilgrimage to Rome for the Holy Year 1950 (5000 intellectuals from all over the world)… As Pax Romana cooperated fully with the Holy See to prepare the first Congress of the Lay Apostolate, organized on the initiative of Vittorino Veronese, president or Italian Catholic Action and Vice-president of ICMICA, Rosemary Goldie got involved in the COPECIAL: the secretariat, in Rom, which had the duty to prepare the three Congresses for the Lay Apostolate in 1951, 57 and 67, and which will give birth to the Pontifical Council for Laity.
   You may read the following stories of her life in the general tribute to her published in the press: she was auditor at the Vatican Council, active engaged in the drafting of the text on lay apostolate, she became an office bearer as under secretary in the Pontifical Council for Laity.
   She never gave up her collaboration with Pax Romana after 1951, when she moved to Rome, but did it in a renewed way.
   She is and remains a symbol of Pax Romana, of Pax Romana’s contribution to the evangelization and of the contribution of Vatican Council to the Church: the role of laity, of women in Church and society, of intellectuals (graduates), the evangelization of culture, the presence of non-Europeans in the governing body of the Church: today, we would say, the diversity and plurality of cultures within the Church…
   Fr Antoine Sondag, former international chaplain of Pax Romana.
   

   Posted By: Antoine Sondag

7. As a YCS student I heard about Rosemary Goldie from Charlie Mayne who spoke of her with great admiration. I met her in Rome later and was charmed by her simplicity and friendliness. May she continue to inspire all women.

   Posted By: Vianney Hatton

8. I read about Rosemary Goldie in the Tablet Magazine recently here in Nigeria. Great personality, I must say. May God grant you eternal Rest and reward you for the work you have done for the Church.

   Posted By: Callistus Iyorember Terhemen

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