Current Action Alerts

September 13th, 2010

September 26 Day of Action

Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) stands in solidarity with Catholic women in Ireland who call for a widespread boycott of Mass on Sunday, September 26, 2010.    "Women make up 60% of Mass-goers and 80% of lay ministers. If each one of us took action on one single day, there is no doubt that this would…
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July 16th, 2010

Sign the Petition Denouncing the Oppression of Women and the Inadequate Response to Child Sex Crimes

Vatican Miscategorizes Women’s Rights Advocates with Child Abusers On July 15, 2010, the Vatican issued a clarification of its canonical procedures for how dioceses should handle priests who sexually abuse children. As part of the statement, they have added that the “attempted ordination of a woman” has now been added to the list of “delicta…
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September 4th, 2009

Support S. Louise Akers

After 40 years in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Sister of Charity Louise Akers has been told by Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk to publicly disassociate herself from the issue of women’s ordination if she wishes to continue making any presentations or teaching for credit in any archdiocesan-related institutions.   On August 10, 2009, Archbishop Pilarczyk met…
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October 10th, 2008

Update: WOC at World Synod of Bishops, Rome

Oct. 30: Read Letter from a Young Seminarian in Rome after our Campaign during Bishops’ Synod  Dear Aisha Taylor, I am a seminarian studying for the priesthood in Rome.  You do not know who I am, but I met you in Rome.  I was dressed casually and not wearing my clerical clothes.  You handed me one…
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July 2nd, 2008

Altar Girls Banned in Wisconsin Diocese

The Women’s Ordination Conference is horrified to learn that St. Barnabas Parish in Mazomanie, Wisc. will no longer allow girls to serve at liturgy. The new policy was announced last Tuesday by Rev. John Del Priore, who was assigned to the parish on June 1. To read WOC’s press release, click here. To find out…
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