Listening to Women: Creating space for women’s voices in the Catholic Church

A new collaboration, “Listening to Women” (www.listeningtowomen.org), aims to create safe spaces for women to assess a parish’s pastoral care, spiritual growth, and opportunities for women to engage in various ministries by organizing listening sessions within their parish.

Inspired by Pentecost’s power to open hearts and minds to God’s vision, this five-year initiative, launching May 20, 2018,  is an opportunity for women to come together to survey the needs within their parish and spiritual lives, and offer feedback to Church leaders.

The responses to an online survey will be collected by listening session leaders and ultimately referred to the U.S. bishops, who need to hear from women.  Please contact FutureChurch at info@futurechurch.org or call 216.228.0869 for information about a session near you, or a way in which your parish can serve as one of the conduits of women’s voices.

Listening to Women is sponsored by the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests, Australian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR), DignityUSA, FutureChurch, RAPPORT (Renewing a Priestly People, Ordination Reconsidered Today) and the Women’s Ordination Conference.