VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has changed church regulations to explicitly allow women and girls to participate in the Easter Week foot-washing ritual, after having shocked many Catholics by performing the rite on women and Muslims just weeks after he was elected. Proponents of women’s ordination hailed Francis’ decree, while traditionalist Catholics warned that it…
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For immediate release January 21, 2016 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna 401-588-0457 ehanna@womensordination.org Kate McElwee 607-725-1364 kmcelwee@womensordination.org The Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) celebrates Pope Francis’ decree to change the Roman Missal, opening Holy Thursday foot washings to women and girls. While the foot washing of women and girls has taken place in parishes and communities for…
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For Immediate Release November 12, 2015 Contact: Pat Brown: UK: +44(0)7950048628 pat@patbrown-at.co.uk Miriam Duignan: UK (+44) 7970 926910 m_duignan@hotmail.com Erin Saiz Hanna: USA (+1) 401-588-0457 ehanna@womensordination.org Kate McElwee: Italy (+39) 393-692-2100 kmcelwee@womensordination.org Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) extends our deepest gratitude to the twelve Irish priests who publicly signed their names to a statement calling…
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Prof. Mat Schmalz, of the College of the Holy Cross, an expert in global Catholicism; Deb Rose-Milavec, executive director of FutureChurch; and Miriam Duignan of the Women’s Ordination Conference who, with colleague Kate McElwee, was detained by Rome police to keep them from approaching bishops exiting the synod. Listen to the full “Reasonably Catholic” radio…
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Read the full Washington Post Article by Michelle Boorstein Women’s Ordination Worldwide, a decades-old group advocating for women to be ordained in all Catholic ministries, issued a statement Tuesday saying it applauded Durocher for “raising the suggestion to the exclusively male-voting body” and for making a connection between the status of women in the…
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Contact: Miriam Duignan: UK (+44) 7970 926910 m_duignan@hotmail.com Kate McElwee: Italy (+39) 393-692-2100 kmcelwee@womensordination.org Erin Saiz Hanna: USA (+1) 401-588-0457 ehanna@womensordination.org For Immediate Release 6 October 2015 Response On Women Deacons Discussed at Vatican Synod Rome, Italy: Recent statements made by Canadian Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher of Gatineau, Quebec during the Vatican’s Synod on the…
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Here are some of the headlines from the Women’s Ordination Worldwide 2015 meeting, featuring WOC and WOW members. NCR: Catholic activists raise ordination issue as pope’s U.S. trip approaches Reasonably Catholic: Kate McElwee on Grab Bag episode NCR: Women ordination advocates multi-media appeal NCR: Women’s ordination conference opens in Philadelphia Irish Times: Question Time: What…
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For Immediate Release September 28, 2015 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna 401.588.0457 Kate McElwee 607.725.1364 On the papal plane from Philadelphia to Rome, Pope Francis was asked: “Will we one day see women priests in the Catholic church as some groups in the U.S. ask, and some other Christian churches have?” “On women priests, that cannot…
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Contact: Miriam Duignan, Women’s Ordination Worldwide 510-984-8678 As Pope Francis arrives in the United States, a parish priest is banned from ministry for following his conscience. On Saturday, September 20, Fr. Jack McClure shared his support for women’s ordination during a panel held in Philadelphia, PA at the Women’s Ordination Worldwideconference. Precious Blood Fr. McClure…
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