Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 23, 2012 Media Contacts: Donna Quinn               (708) 974-4220      ,   dquinn4220@aol.com Mary E. Hunt               (301) 589-2509      , water@hers.com                                                                Feminist Catholic Citizens Tell a New Story: Women-Church Speaks In this…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 19, 2012 Media Contact: Kate Conmy             (202) 675-1006       Yesterday, the Congregation of Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) launched a crackdown on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an umbrella group that represents more than 80 percent of the 57,000 women religious in the United…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 5, 2012 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, ehanna@womensordination.org 202.675.1006    On holiest of days, Pope slams women’s ordination supporters   Response from Erin Saiz Hanna, Executive Director        WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Roman Catholics globally joined together for the feast of Holy Thursday, to commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus the Christ and…
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November 15, 2011  SOA Watch Contact:                                                         Hendrik Voss                                         …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 17, 2011 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, 401.588.0457        Fr. Roy Bourgeois and international delegation of women’s ordination leaders hold press conference; march on Vatican to deliver petition signed by 15,000 supporters   ROME, ITALY – Today, at 12:00 noon at Casa Del Cinema (Sala Kodak), Largo Marcello Mastroianni, representatives of…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 17, 2011 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, 401.588.0457        Fr. Roy and two supporters detained at Vatican    ROME, ITALY – This afternoon, an international delegation of women’s ordination leaders including Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, marched to the Vatican with a petition signed by 15,000 supporters. Fr. Bourgeois has…
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Women-Church Convergence Supports Catholics for Marriage Equality in Minnesota October 7, 2011    The Women-Church Convergence meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 1, 2011, applauds and supports the work of Catholics for Marriage Equality in Minnesota. We are grateful for CME’s work to defeat the proposed state referendum that would limit marriage to a man…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 22, 2011 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, 202 675-1006, woc@womensordination.org Women’s Ordination Conference Decries Ban on Altar Girls in Pheonix Diocese   WASHINGTON, DC – August 22, 2011 – Girls will no longer be allowed to serve as altar servers during Mass at the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix,…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Hanna, Executive Director,  Women’s Ordination Conference 202.675.1006 (office), 401.588.0457 (cell)    August 8, 2011 Maryknoll Priest Faces Removal from the Priesthood; Receives Second Canonical Warning for His Support of Women’s Equality in the Catholic Church Under pressure from the Vatican, the Maryknoll Catholic religious order has issued a second canonical warning to…
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View the PDF Rev. Edward Dougherty, M.M.,  Superior General And My Maryknoll Community  P.O. Box303 Maryknoll, NY 10545   August 8, 2011 My Brothers, I have been a Catholic priest for 39 years and Maryknoll has been my faith community, my family. So it was with great sadness that I received your letter of July…
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