Leadership

Meet our Council! The Area Leader and two Councilors generally serve for a three-year term. The current leadership team will serve from 2024 – 2027.

Maria Timoney, Area Leader

Sister Maria Timoney, RSHM, trained as a teacher and worked at St. Bridget’s School in Virginia followed by several years in the Marymount College Admissions Office in Tarrytown, New York. She was then missioned to the Appalachian region of Virginia in 1979. She was involved with community development, community organizing and advocacy, and served as a legal intern with Legal Services of Southwest Virginia. She returned to New York in 1988 to attend CUNY Law School, Queens College. Upon completing her law degree, she returned Wytheville, Virginia and worked as an attorney for the the Southwest Virginia Legal Aid Society. In 2019 she returned to New York when she was asked to join the Eastern American Area’s leadership team as a councilor. She served in this role until a new council was elected in 2021. She continued to do legal work for the Eastern American Area and its ministries until her recent appointment as Area Leader.

Margaret Hoyne, RSHM

With an MS degree in Education from St. John’s University, Sister Margaret served as both teacher and administrator at several schools over 36 years, including St. Pius X, Rosedale, NY, St. Andrew’s in Sag Harbor, NY, St. Catharine of Alexandria in Brooklyn, NY, Good Shepherd in St. Louis, MO, and Marymount International School in Paris, France. In 2005, she joined the staff of the RSHM LIFE Center in Sleepy Hallow, NY, and became Convent Coordinator in 2015. In 2023, she began a new ministry at Cormaria Retreat Center until recently asked to join the new Eastern American Area leadership team.

Catherine Vincie, RSHM, PhD

Sister Catherine was a professor of sacramental and liturgical theology at the Aquinas Institute of Theology, at Saint Louis University for 20 years, and has also given presentations at national conferences, to religious communities, and at diocesan conferences. She has written Worship and the New Cosmology: Liturgical and Theological Challenges; Celebrating Divine Mystery: A Primer in Liturgical Theology; The Role of Assembly in Christian Initiation as well as over fifty-five articles and book chapters about Christian initiation, Eucharist, and liturgy and justice. As a liturgical musician, Sister Catherine is also interested in the role of the arts in past and current liturgical celebrations. This is her fourth term as Area Councilor.