The Women’s Ordination Conference, with the financial support of Sheila Durkin Dierks and her family, is honored to offer a scholarship fund for undergraduate and graduate women beginning in the 2017-18 academic year to support their academic and spiritual path toward ordained priesthood. Apply now! Learn more about Lucile Murray Durkin. Who is encouraged to…
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In this moment in history, the Women’s Ordination Conference upholds our unwavering commitment to justice for all people. Our values of grassroots activism, radical inclusion, and feminist thought and action will empower our work forward as we work for a better Church and world for all. As Hillary Rodham Clinton said: “Let us not grow…
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On November 1, 2016 on the papal plane from Sweden to Rome, Pope Francis was asked by a journalist: “Is it realistic to think that there might be women priests in the next few decades?” Referring to Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, he responded: “On the ordination of women in the Catholic Church, the last word is clear. It…
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The exclusion of women from decision and policy-making in the institutional Roman Catholic Church is an injustice that disproportionately impacts the lives of women and girls. Because women are prohibited from ordination rites – a necessary key for leadership and voting positions in the Church – women are marginalized, silenced, and absent from Church policies…
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Guardian: Pope Francis says women will never be Roman Catholic priests International Business Times: Pope Francis says ban on female priesthood in Roman Catholic church likely to stay forever International Business Times of India: Women can never be Catholic priests, says Pope Francis New York Post: Pope Francis has bad news for aspiring female priests New York Times: Pope…
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For Immediate Release: 1 November 2016 Contact: Kate McElwee +1 607.725.1364 On the papal plane from Sweden to Rome, Pope Francis was asked by a journalist: “Is it realistic to think that there might be women priests in the next few decades?” “On the Ordination of women in the Catholic church, the last word…
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It was the unlikeliest of press conferences and a sign of times that are changing with unprecedented momentum even from within one of the world’s oldest religious institutions. On Oct 20, in Arlington Heights, representatives from Catholic priest movements and lay reform organizations based across the world gathered to lay out a series of direct…
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For Immediate Release October 21, 2016 Contacts: Deborah Rose-Milavec, FutureChurch – 513.673.1401 (c) 216.228.0869 (o), debrose@futurechurch Kate McElwee, Women’s Ordination Conference – 607-725-1364 (c), kmcelwee@womensordination.org Bob Bonnot, Association of U.S. Catholic Priests – 330-397-1257 (c), auscpbonnot@gmail.com From October 17 – 20, 2016, forty priests and lay persons from ten countries gathered in Chicago to develop strategies…
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Women in the Catholic church have long been their own advocates, pushing the hierarchy and those within their faith communities to grant them the same ecclesial leadership roles as their male counterparts. The door, however, has remained closed — but the fight has continued. … NCR has reported on women who have faced similar scrutiny…
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Read the full story here Kate McElwee, the co-executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, said: “During this time of unity, I pray that our shared Gospel value of justice deepens to equally include ordained ministers of all genders and traditions.”
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