Sister Anne Carr (11 November 1934 – 11 February 2008) was a Catholic nun, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an activist, and feminist theologian at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where she was the first female permanent member of the faculty.
She received a master's degree and her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1971 with a dissertation on the German theologian Karl Rahner, and began teaching there in 1975.
Her books include Thomas Merton's Theology of Self and Transforming Grace: Christian Tradition and Women's Experience.
[5] What many believed was a radical approach at the time, Carr did not hold back when she discussed the sexism that existed in the Christian community.
[3] She was amongst a group of twenty some nuns in the United States who were part of an extremely provocative New York Times advertisement that helped to relinquish the belief that all Roman Catholics regard abortion as a sin and share the same views on it.