June 24th, 2020
EALM: Escucha, ora y actua! – (Listen, Pray and Act!) June 28, 2020, 12 PM ET Please join us on Sunday, June 28th for Escucha, ora y actua! – (Listen, Pray and Act!) — a virtual introduction to WOC’s Spanish-language outreach program, Escuchando a las Mujeres and a community prayer for justice. Together we’ll listen…
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June 2nd, 2020
The Women’s Ordination Conference denounces white supremacy and the systemic violence of racism. We stand unequivocally with those who are marginalized, silenced, or discriminated against, and work to transform oppressive structures of domination, inequality, imperialism, and racism. We denounce police violence. We grieve and mourn alongside the families and communities – especially the black community…
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May 20th, 2020
Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2020 | 7 -8 PM EDT Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s recent– and long time — ardent and public support for Trump threatens the safety of our undocumented siblings. It also violates the demands of the Gospel and Catholic Social Teaching. We, as Catholics in the United States, call on others in Catholic leadership to disavow…
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April 15th, 2020
On May 3, 2020, Vocations Sunday, supporters of women’s ordination from around the globe gathered virtually – in prayer, and longing, and praise for the women whose vocations must and will be part of the new church that is pieced together from the shards of the disaster of the pandemic. We proclaimed our theme: Women’s Vocations…
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March 24th, 2020
On this annual World Day of Prayer for Women’s Ordination, we give you a special offering in collaboration with Roman Catholic Women Priests: a video prayer compiled by supporters of women’s ordination from around the world, praying the same prayer together. The text is adapted from a prayer by the late Mary Ann Schoettly, RCWP:…
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February 5th, 2020
RSVP here by March 3 and receive location information. About the Young Feminist Network: We are a diverse and inclusive community of Catholic-rooted people in their 20s and 30s supporting one another on our faith journeys. We bring our whole selves and uphold the values of consciousness-raising, liberation, social justice, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and feminism. We…
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February 5th, 2020
On March 8, International Women’s Day, Women’s Ordination Conference members and supporters marched from the United Nations headquarters in New York City to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, calling for women’s “Equal Rights and Rites.” See the full photo gallery here. The protesters sang a WOC “remix” of women’s rights song “Bread and Roses,” which you can…
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February 5th, 2020
Women’s Ordination Conference announces with a heavy heart that our first parallel events at the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women since becoming an NGO with consultative status are cancelled. All Commission on the Status of Women meetings from March 9-20 and all side events have been cancelled due to the increased risk…
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November 1st, 2019
If “joy is an infallible sign of the presence of God,” to quote Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the palpable joy in the first meeting of Benedictine sisters and feminist theologians, Joan Chittister and Teresa Forcades, showed that the Divine Spirit was present and acting. The event, “Radicals and the Rule,” held October 11, 2019 at…
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September 24th, 2019
As the upcoming Synod on the Amazonian region begins in October, 185 men are expected to vote on the final document, and 0 women are expected to vote. 1 non-ordained, religious brother is allowed to vote. 0 non-ordained, religious sisters are allowed to vote. Women who have the same ecclesial status as non-ordained men are excluded again. We’ve seen…
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