Rosemary Goldie

Rosemary Goldie
Born	(1916-02-01)1 February 1916 Manly, New South Wales, Australia
Died	27 February 2010(2010-02-27) (aged 94) Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Roman Catholic theologian
Known for	undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (1967-76); Vatican II female auditor

Rosemary Goldie AO (1 February 1916 – 27 February 2010) was an Australian Roman Catholic theologian.

Goldie was the first woman to serve in an executive role in the Roman Curia; she was undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity from 1967 until 1976. She also served as an auditor during the Second Vatican Council.

Rosemary Goldie was born in Manly, New South Wales and raised by her maternal grandmother. She attended high school at Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta, and later studied arts at the University of Sydney. She gained a scholarship from the French government which allowed her to study at the Sorbonne where she heard Jacques Maritain.

In 1951 she worked at the first First World Congress of the Lay Apostolate and then studied Catholic theology at the academy of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. In 1964 she was one of the first female auditors of the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Paul VI made her undersecretary in the newly created Pontifical Council for the Laity in 1967. When the council became a permanent part of the Roman Curia in December 1976, Goldie took a professorship for pastoral theology at the Pontifical Lateran University continuing there as tutor when she retired from that post. In 1990, Goldie was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "service to religion and to international relations".