Current Action Alerts

We know that unjust practices and laws don’t reverse themselves. Change is not possible without an empowered grassroots movement. As we prepare to count down to a new year, we need your help to keep the movement for women’s equality strong, visible, and vocal.  While the journey is long, we are determined to work uncompromisingly and unwaveringly for…
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The Women’s Ordination Conference and our partners in church reform gathered on Monday, November 15, in Baltimore for a prayerful witness calling for “Bread, Not Stones,” ahead of the US bishops’ conference meeting where they were to vote on a controversial document on the Eucharist. Just about 50 of us were there, praying, marching, chanting, and singing,…
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This week is what the U.S. Bishops call “National Vocation Awareness Week,” and we’re here to help. While we at the Women’s Ordination Conference are plenty aware of the vibrant and valid vocations of women and non-binary people in the Catholic Church, many of our brothers in Christ have yet to embrace the Good News.…
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Beginning in mid-October 2021, the global Catholic Church begins what is arguably its most important initiative since Vatican II — the Synod on Synodality.   This two year process will explore what it means to “journey together” as the People of God in a local and global Church. Pope Francis is inviting us to what he…
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Anne Tropeano, known as Father Anne, was joyfully ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in Albuquerque, NM on Saturday, October 16, 2021 at the Cathedral of St. John. She is defying the Vatican and breaking canon law, which automatically excommunicates women who attempt ordination.  Anne Tropeano holds a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School…
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Learn about ordained woman priest Ludmila Javorová’s life, ministry, and why she is important as the world follows Francis to Slovakia.

As a member of Catholic Organizations for Renewal, WOC is part of an effort to encourage Catholics to speak out against the US Bishops’ attempt to politicize and weaponize the Eucharist by drafting and voting on a controversial document on the Eucharist this fall. We want to hear from you. What does the Eucharist mean to you?…
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There’s a story from the Eastern Orthodox tradition about Mary Magdalene and her iconic red egg… Mary Magdalene went to the emperor Tiberius Caesar to proclaim the resurrection of Jesus and brought an egg, a traditional symbol of rebirth and spring. The emperor told her that it was no more possible that Jesus had risen…
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Please join us for our next virtual retreat: “She Went Up in a Flame: A Pentecost Retreat,” on May 14-16, 2021. In this retreat, we will explore the Pentecost story and what it means for women to act as “prophetic flames,” bearing the Spirit’s fire of justice to a world and a Church sorely in…
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My Dream of Vocation… As “Vocations Sunday,” the Church’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations, approaches on April 25, we invite you to reflect: What is your dream of vocation? The prophet Joel and the Acts of the Apostles remind us: God’s Spirit, poured out upon us, allows us to prophesy, to see visions, and…
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