FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 9, 2008
CONTACTS: Aisha Taylor, 703 352-1006, woc@womensordination.org
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Women's Ordination Conference Gives the Gift of Women
In honor of Pope Benedict's visit to the USA and 81st birthday
WASHINGTON, DC - On Monday, April 14, the Women's Ordination Conference, in conjunction with ten similar events around the country, will mark Pope Benedict’s visit to the USA and 81st birthday with a Mass presided by Catholic women, including two recently excommunicated ordained women. This Mass, as part of their “Giving the Gift of Women” campaign, is one of three events held throughout the week that will call for Pope Benedict XVI to ordain women as priests, deacons and bishops.
“The failure to ordain women is a blatant manifestation of sexism in the church that has wider repercussions in the world,” said Aisha Taylor, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference. “In the three years of his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI has made a few encouraging statements about women, but he has done nothing that suggests willingness to even re-open the discussion on women’s ordination. That’s why for his 81st birthday, we are offering Pope Benedict the gift of women priests, women’s leadership, and women’s experience to the Church.”
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