Sister Sara Butler has been appointed to a new five-year term on the International Theological Commission by Pope Benedict XVI July 25. She a member of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, who teaches dogmatic theology at the New York Archdiocese’s St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers. In 2004 Sister Butler and Barbara Hallensleben, a German laywoman who teaches dogmatic theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, became the first women named to the International Theological Commission.
