Dolores R. Leckey is a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. She has worked in the area of spirituality as a retreat leader, lecturer, and writer—in the United States, Europe, and Australia—for more than a quarter of a century. For twenty of those years she held the highest profile position a woman ever held with the National Conference of Catholic Bishops: executive director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth.