Expanding role of women (in church and world)

While at Maryville, she also served as a college counselor, a position she found life giving and more suitable to her gifts than administration or classroom teaching. In this work, she found a home for herself. In addition to being certified in clinical pastoral education, Tita also received certification as a CPE supervisor. At the conclusion of her work at the Regis Retirement Center in St.

Beginning in 1976 Mary served for nine years as a university chaplain, first at Princeton University and then at the Catholic Center at New York University. In 1990, at the age of sixty-six, Mary began preparing for a new ministry as a hospital chaplain, studying with seminarians of various faiths, most of whom were in their twenties. She settled in as a student with them, sharing her wealth of experience.