November 1st, 2012
By Theresa Yugar In the Roman Catholic Church, it was a kairos moment pertaining to a critique of an illogical, dysfunctional church, and gender-justice for Catholic women in a global world. From July 9th through the 11th, a group of twenty-one Catholic feminists representing diverse ages, cultures, ethnic backgrounds that included academicians and practitioners, women…
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June 15th, 2012
A new spiritual uprising is rocking the Catholic Church today. At the Vatican we see the “Monsignors Mutiny,” a tale of betrayal, corruption, and power struggles that has the potential of becoming a blockbuster movie that could rival the Da Vinci Code. One Italian paper even suggested that an unnamed laywoman had secretly ordered the…
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June 1st, 2012
For the past several weeks, I’ve been helping to organize the local Nunjustice vigils in Washington, DC. I’ve been struck each week at the signs I see here in D.C. and from the pictures across the country depicting nuns. Sisters have been described as the “backbone” and the “heartbeat” of the Church, “the face” and…
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May 23rd, 2012
On Saturday, May 12, 2012, we gathered in suburban Cleveland, Ohio at the Brecksville United Church of Christ to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Danube Seven. Our guest of honor was the only American among those pioneers, Dagmar Celeste. Our celebration opened with a dramatic presentation by four women who presented a vignette from…
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April 11th, 2012
On the weekend of March 24, 2012 over 40,000 Catholics gathered in Anaheim, CA for the Los Angeles Religious Education Conference. For the 2nd year in a row Roman Catholic Womenpriests, Call to Action-LA and the local Women’s Ordination Conference group gathered outside the event to call for women’s ordination. We held banners, passed out…
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March 13th, 2012
A reflection on the World Day of Prayer for Women’s Ordination services by Christine Haider-Winnett, WOC Board Member and student of Theology at the Pacific School of Religion. On March 6, Pacific School of Religion (PSR) hosted a chapel service in honor of World Day of Prayer for Women’s Ordination, which was attended by…
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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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