March 7th, 2012
The Christlike Reversal: a Pink Smoke Over the Vatican Review Guest Post by Janice Poss, WOC Member “The Buddha and Jesus have to meet every moment in each of us. Each of us in our daily practice needs to touch the spirit of Buddha and the spirit of Jesus so that they manifest…It is like…
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March 1st, 2012
Just as sexism is a sin, it is also a sign: the Church must change. Sign of Peace Just minutes after touching ground in Rome, Erin and I spotted a familiar face behind a handwritten “Ordain Women!” sign near the baggage claim of the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport: Fr. Roy Bourgeois welcomed us with his…
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October 26th, 2011
Published on Monday, October 24, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Challenging the Old Boys Network in the Vatican by Bill Quigley We never thought it would end up on a hard wooden bench inside a police station in Piazza Cavour. Maryknoll priest Fr. Roy Bourgeois, young Erin Saiz Hanna of Women’s Ordination Conference in the US and Miriam Duignan…
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October 19th, 2011
Occupy the Vatican? October 18, 2011 by Julie Cain, See the original article on the Ms. Blog Father Roy Bourgeois, a beloved Catholic priest who has supported women’s ordination, was briefly detained in Rome yesterday after he and about a dozen women marched on the Vatican. The marchers held a banner reading “Ordain Catholic Women” and…
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October 17th, 2011
Erin Hanna, executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, Miriam Duignan of womenpriests.org, and Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Roman Catholic priest of 39 years have all been released safely from an Italian police station in Rome. “Today was a home run,” said Fr. Roy after regrouping with the women’s ordination delegation gathered after a full day!…
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October 17th, 2011
Catholics campaigning for women priests detained at Vatican A group of Roman Catholic activists who think women should be ordained priests tried to deliver a petition to the Vatican on Monday but were blocked from entering St Peter’s Square and some were detailed by police. Witnesses said plainclothes Italian police stopped the group of about…
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October 17th, 2011
It’s a great joy for me to be with WOC in Rome to bring the important message of ordaining women to our Church leaders at the Vatican. Solidarity! As I see it, it’s all about solidarity and refusing to be silent about a grave injustice: the exclusion of women in our Church. Roy Bourgeois, M.M.…
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