Mary Rowell is a Sister of St. Joseph and she is Vocation Director for the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada. Currently, Sister Mary works in retreat ministry, spiritual direction and ecological initiatives at Villa St. Joseph Retreat Centre, a ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Cobourg, Ontario. Mary also teaches courses in Catholic Social Teaching, moral theology, Christian Leadership and Worship and Ethics at the University of Toronto. Previously Mary was a nurse and nurse educator in the U.K. and she has worked in many countries in Asia and the Indian sub-continent where she developed programmes in ophthalmology and blindness prevention. She has also worked as a clinical ethicist at St. Joseph’s Health Care in London, Ontario, the Penetanguishine Mental Health Centre and at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto - during which time she was cross-appointed as Director of the Collaborative Graduate Programme in Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Mary received her B.A. in Philosophy and her M.A. in Medical Law and Ethics from the University of London in the U.K. and her PhD. in Theology, from the University of Durham also in the U.K.