Maryanne P. Confoy RSC (born 15 April 1944) is an Australian religious Sister of Charity who has also been a teacher and scholar, working primarily in the areas of ministry and spirituality.
[1] Confoy completed a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and went on to further postgraduate studies at Boston College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
[3] She co-edited a volume called Freedom and Entrapment: Women Thinking Theology, with Joan Nowotny and Dorothy A. Lee, which was published in 1995.
After the publication of her book, Religious Life and Priesthood, she was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for a program on The Future of Priests and Nuns.
[7] Other governance roles have included member of the Australian Catholic University Senate and Chair of Melbourne College of Divinity Board of Postgraduate Studies.