Nate Tinner-Williams | Black Catholic Messenger

Sr Jamie T. Phelps, one of the nation’s most influential Black womanist theologians and a leading light of the Black Catholic Movement, has died in Michigan after a brief illness. She was 84 years old and no cause of death was released.

The Adrian Dominican Sisters, of which Phelps was the first Black member and in which she served for 66 years, announced the news on Nov. 24, two days after her death.