Author: Kate McElwee

Women’s Ordination Worldwide Responds to Amoris Laetitia

For Immediate Release: 8 April 2016 Contact: Pat Brown: UK: (+44) (0)7950 048628 pat@patbrown-at.co.uk Miriam Duignan: UK (+44) (0)7970 926910 miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com Kate McElwee: USA (+1) 607 725 1364 kmcelwee@womensordination.org Therese Koturbash: Canada (+1) 204 648 5720 t.m.koturbash@gmail.com Pope Francis’ exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, released today at the Vatican offers seeds of hope for a Church moving away…
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Holy Thursday Vigil: Sacred Witness to Injustice in the Roman Catholic Church

March 24, 2016 Written by Jane Via, RCWP and Janice Sevre-­Duszynska, ARCWP Click here to download the PDF Version Opening Song:  “Ubi Caritas” Opening Rite:   In the name of the Silence, the ground of our being; the Word through which the silence speaks; the Music, the dynamic energy of the Spirit; and the dance…
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WOC Joins Global Interfaith Feminists Call for End of Gender Discrimination on International Women’s Day 2016

  For Immediate Release:  March 8, 2016 Contact:  Erin Saiz Hanna 401-588-0457 Kate McElwee 607-725-1364 Washington, DC: Today, on International Women’s Day, the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC), a U.S. based organization working for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church, launched an interfaith campaign calling out gender injustice and sexism in faith traditions.…
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WOC Joins Global Interfaith Feminists Call for End of Gender Discrimination on International Women’s Day 2016

In the spirit of International Women’s Day, faith leaders and feminists are speaking out for the  inclusion of women’s full participation in religious traditions.The Women’s Ordination Conference asked its allies in the feminists of faith community how women’s equality in faith would change the world.  The following are highlights shared from notable women of faith…
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RNS: Pope Francis opens foot-washing rite to women in gesture of inclusion

By David Gibson and Rosie Scammell | Religion News Service January 21 VATICAN CITY — In a change that quickly set the Catholic world buzzing, Pope Francis is allowing priests to wash the feet of women and anyone else in the community on Holy Thursday and not just men, as church law had previously decreed. The reform,…
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NYTimes: Pope Changes Church Rules, Opens Foot-Washing Rite to Women

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has changed church regulations to explicitly allow women and girls to participate in the Easter Week foot-washing ritual, after having shocked many Catholics by performing the rite on women and Muslims just weeks after he was elected. Proponents of women’s ordination hailed Francis’ decree, while traditionalist Catholics warned that it…
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Statement on Vatican Decree Opening Holy Thursday Foot Washing to Women and Girls

For immediate release January 21, 2016 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna 401-588-0457 ehanna@womensordination.org Kate McElwee 607-725-1364 kmcelwee@womensordination.org The Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) celebrates Pope Francis’ decree to change the Roman Missal, opening Holy Thursday foot washings to women and girls. While the foot washing of women and girls has taken place in parishes and communities for…
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Women’s Ordination Advocates Support Irish Priests’ Statement on Women: Call for Greater Moral Courage of Catholic Hierarchy to Join Grassroots

For Immediate Release November 12, 2015 Contact: Pat Brown: UK: +44(0)7950048628 pat@patbrown-at.co.uk Miriam Duignan: UK (+44) 7970 926910 m_duignan@hotmail.com Erin Saiz Hanna: USA (+1) 401-588-0457 ehanna@womensordination.org Kate McElwee: Italy (+39) 393-692-2100 kmcelwee@womensordination.org   Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) extends our deepest gratitude to the twelve Irish priests who publicly signed their names to a statement calling…
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Reasonably Catholic: St. Peter’s Squares… and a few progressives

Prof. Mat Schmalz, of the College of the Holy Cross, an expert in global Catholicism; Deb Rose-Milavec, executive director of FutureChurch; and Miriam Duignan of the Women’s Ordination Conference who, with colleague Kate McElwee, was detained by Rome police to keep them from approaching bishops exiting the synod. Listen to the full “Reasonably Catholic” radio…
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Archbishop urges Pope Francis’s synod on the family: Consider allowing women deacons

Read the full Washington Post Article by Michelle Boorstein    Women’s Ordination Worldwide, a decades-old group advocating for women to be ordained in all Catholic ministries, issued a statement Tuesday saying it applauded Durocher for “raising the suggestion to the exclusively male-voting body” and for making a connection between the status of women in the…
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