Author: Erin Saiz Hanna

The following “A Church for Our Daughters” testimony was given outside of the USCCB meeting in Huntington, CA on June 14, 2016 by WOC Co-Director, Erin Saiz Hanna:   This September I am expected to bring a baby girl into this world. Like so many moms, I dream of a world that is better —…
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 Yesterday, Pope Francis made headlines when he agreed  to set up a commission to study opening the diaconate to women. The unexpected news brought much joy to the many women who are called to serve as deacons in the Church.  Maria Angelika Fromm is one of those women. Upon hearing the news, Angelika wrote to WOC: My first…
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Today, International Women’s Day (March 8), is a global day dedicated to celebrating women’s social, economic, cultural and political achievements. On this day in 1857, hundreds of women in New York City’s garment and textile factories staged a strike in protest of long working hours, inadequate pay, poor working conditions, and the lack of the right…
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Dear Women’s Ordination Conference Members and Supporters, I’m joyful to start work this week as WOC’s new Office Manager based in Washington D.C. It’s an honor to get to work for a courageous, visionary organization advocating for women’s ordination and for a more feminist, anti-racist, and accountable Catholic Church. I’m originally from Oregon where both…
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NOW IN PAPERBACK! SPECIAL DISCOUNT! USE PROMOTIONAL CODE 7A3AUTHF AND SAVE 25% Incompatible with God’s Design: A History of the Women’s Ordination Movement in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church  By Mary Jeremy Daigler Incompatible with God’s Design is the first comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic women’s ordination movement in the United States. Mary Jeremy Daigler explores how the…
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The Beginning of Lent, 2014 Dear Cardinal O’ Malley I am writing to you and to all the ordinaries of the dioceses in the United States to ask you and your fellow bishops in your role as teachers to provide a clear and credible theological explanation of why women are not being ordained to the…
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May 22, 2014 will mark the 20th anniversary of John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in which he attempted to officially ban discussion about the ordination of women. In a now infamous July 28, 2013 interview with reporters at the end of World Youth Day, Pope Francis referenced this document when he said, “On the ordination of women, the church has…
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I am the daughter of an atheist and an Episcopal Sunday school teacher. Today I am an agnostic, married to a Hindu woman. Not exactly the kind of person you might expect to have spent the last three years of my life making a film about catholic nuns. Growing up, I had no exposure to…
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By Jan L. Richardson from Night Visions: searching for shadows of Advent and Christmas, 1998: United Church Press Wise women also came. The fire burned in their wombs long before they saw the flaming star in the sky. They walked in shadows, trusting the path would open under the light of the moon.  Wise women also came,…
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If you do your Christmas shopping on Amazon, here’s one way to make your gift giving go a little bit further. Before you shop, please go to Amazon Smile at http://smile.amazon.com and select “Women’s Ordination Conference” as your selected charity. Amazon Smile is a simple and automatic way for you to support WOC every time…
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