Our collective vision is a Roman Catholic Church that affirms women’s gifts, responds by calling them to ministry and ordination, openly and actively supports women’s voices, and reflects the example of Jesus—welcoming all to the table.
Our message to the Vatican: Don’t Kick the Can… Women Can be Priests
Watch the video!As the synod opened, WOC and international partners held a coloful and noisy witness with a direct message for the Vatican: “Don’t kick the can down the road; women can be priests.”
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WOC is a grassroots-driven movement that promotes activism, dialogue, and prayerful witness to call for women’s full equality in the Church.
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The Wildflowers of the Grassroots is our network of committed and passionate advocates of ordination justice whose diverse gifts and efforts create a beautiful field in which our dreams of a renewed church can flourish.
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The language we use to worship and celebrate God matters. This Lectionary project affirms and empowers Christians to model radical equality and inclusion.
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Meet our scholarship awardees and apply for this unique scholarship for women and nonbinary people discerning ordination.
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Synodality and the Fierce Urgency of Equality:
the call for women’s ordination now
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Our Synod Report
We believe in the inclusive promise of the synodal process, and have actively encouraged our members to engage in authentic ways, both in their parishes and in our listening sessions. The integrity and impact of the synod will depend on the radical inclusion and welcome of often marginalized voices into courageous conversations, just like ours.
Read our synod report and summarySee our synod listening phase toolsThe Vatican included WOC on their websiteRead WOC Executive Director’s opinion piece in the National Catholic ReporterWomen’s Ordination and Synodality: A Conversation at Sacred Heart University
Ministry of Irritation disrupts patriarchal business-as-usual at the Vatican
Executive Director Interview in SojournersRNS: “They called for female leadership at the Vatican. They were arrested.”National Catholic Reporter coverageThe Con-SISTER-y of RESIST-ory succeeded!
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Why ordain women?
It is one of the most simple and yet profound questions we can answer as a movement.
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READ OUR BLOGSUBSCRIBE Five Synod Delegates from the Margins
The last time I tumbled the bin of Synod delegates, I got two cardinals. This time, five “non-bishops,” as the USCCB characterizes them, popped out. These delegates from the United States convince me that Pope Francis had a hand in picking them. They all have characteristics that suggest they are on the margins in one way or another…
Keep reading…Opening the Door to Women’s Ordination
Sitting behind the cantor podium in a candlelit chapel adorned with poinsettia and pine, I was first struck by the power of a Roman Catholic woman preaching…her position on the raised platform at the center of this worshiping community gave her words a potency I had yet to hear from that pulpit–from a woman.
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