21 January 2015 Contact Details Below Catholics call on the bishops of the world to “widen the circle” at 2015 Family Synod Sixteen Catholic organizations have issued an open letter calling on the bishops of the world and Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, to widen the circle of auditors and…
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Sign the Petition To: Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri and the Bishops As faithful Catholics, we are deeply concerned that the perspective and experience of a large number of Catholics will not be represented at the upcoming Synod. Therefore, we are writing to urge you to widen the circle of people invited to participate in the upcoming…
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Read the full article on Crux Erin Saiz Hanna, executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference in Washington, D.C., agrees that women leading Catholic organizations is worthy of celebration, but said the Church still comes up short when it comes to women because of its ordination rules. “Women are told that they can be anything…
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From National Catholic Reporter‘s Jamie Manson, the WOC Blog, The Table is linked in her article. Excerpt below: I would like to believe that the Pontifical Council for Culture has the best of intentions in soliciting the reflections of women, even if it is in the most inadequate and most virtual of ways. But the…
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The Pontifical Council for Culture and the Vatican’s “Women’s Consultation Group” have launched a video campaign asking women (un-ironically?): “who you are, what you do, what you think about your being a woman, your strengths, your difficulties, your body, and your spiritual life.” The Vatican will host a meeting in February 2015 to reflect on four issues:…
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The Nun Justice Project is a grassroots movement supported by the following organizations: American Catholic Council, Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church, Call To Action, Catholics for Choice, CORPUS, DignityUSA, FutureChurch, New Ways Ministry,Quixote Center, RAPPORT (Renewing a Priestly People, Ordination Reconsidered Today), Voice of the Faithful, WATER: Women’s Alliance for Theology,…
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Release date: Tuesday, December 16th For Immediate Release Organizational media contacts: See list below For general background: Kate McElwee:(Rome) +39 06 320 3331 kmcelwee@womensordination.org Jim Fitzgerald (USA) 773 404 0004 x262 jim@cta-usa.org Catholic Groups Applaud Vatican Report as “First Step” in Reconciling with U.S. Sisters; Demand immediate removal of sanctions against LCWR leadership Statement from…
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Dear Cardinal Sean O’Malley: In what has already become an infamous “60 Minutes” interview, you stated to Norah O’Donnell: “If I were founding a church, I’d love to have women priests. But Christ founded it, and what he has given us is something different.” As women born well after Vatican II, we are constantly asked: “Why…
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WEST WARWICK, R.I. — An Irish priest censured by the Vatican for supporting the ordination of women and challenging church teachings on homosexuality received a warm welcome when speaking at Emanuel Lutheran Church on Sunday afternoon. About 75 people turned out to hear Father Tony Flannery, who is on an 18-city, three-week tour of the…
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For Immediate Release: October 23, 2014 Contacts: Erin Saiz Hanna, 401-588-0457 Marianne Duddy-Burke, 617-669-7810 Gathered in Chicago for its annual meeting, October 17-19, 2014, the members of Women-Church Convergence, a coalition of feminist Catholic groups, issued the following statement as the Extraordinary Synod on the Family was drawing to a close in Rome. Women-Church Convergence celebrates the diversity…
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