WOC in the News

Members of the WOC community were featured in the following television and radio broadcasts and newspaper articles during Pope Benedict XVI's 2008 visit to the USA.

April 20: Aisha Taylor, WOC executive director, and other church reform leaders, quoted in Inter Press Service News Agency article "Pope's Visit Highlights Faultlines in the Church" by Arlene Chang Read here

April 18

• Taylor featured in Washington Post video "Benedict in America" posted on WashingtonPost.com. Watch now!
• Gerry Rauch, WOC Board President, mentioned in Belleville News Democrat article "Parishioner pays $10,000 for ad in USA Today asking pope to remove Braxton" Read here

April 17:

• Taylor, Andrea Johnson, former WOC executive director and Roman Catholic Womanpriest, Elsie McGrath and Rose Marie Hudson, the recently excommunicated ordained women from St. Louis, featured on National Public Radio show Interfaith Voices with Sr. Maureen Fiedler. Listen here

April 15:

• Taylor interviewed on BBC Radio World Service, program: The World Today (10 minutes into the program)
• Jamie Manson, WOC board member, interviewed on New York City WPIX channel 11 10:00 PM news
• Victoria Rue, WOC board member, interviewed on "Forum" talk show, KQED public radio in San Francisco, with the president of the Graduate Theological Union and Monsg, Schlitt.
• Mary Hunt, WOC adviser and co-director of WATER, in Out in Louisville Read here

April 14:

• Washington, DC Fox news television channel 5 featured WOC's inclusive Eucharistic liturgy on the 10 o'clock news. View clip here

April 13:

• Associated Press, Papal Visit Provokes Array of Protests by David Crary, run in 129 news outlets around the country, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington
• ABC 7 News in Chicago "Organization pushes for female priests"
• Chicagoland TV news clip: Women's Group Demonstrates against Catholic Church

April 4:

• National Catholic Reporter article on events of WOC and many church reform groups