Author: Kate McElwee

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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Response On Women Deacons Discussed at Vatican Synod

Contact: Miriam Duignan: UK (+44) 7970 926910 m_duignan@hotmail.com Kate McElwee: Italy (+39) 393-692-2100 kmcelwee@womensordination.org Erin Saiz Hanna: USA (+1) 401-588-0457 ehanna@womensordination.org For Immediate Release 6 October 2015   Response On Women Deacons Discussed at Vatican Synod Rome, Italy:  Recent statements made by Canadian Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher of Gatineau, Quebec during the Vatican’s Synod on the…
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WOW 2015 in the news

Here are some of the headlines from the Women’s Ordination Worldwide 2015 meeting, featuring WOC and WOW members.  NCR: Catholic activists raise ordination issue as pope’s U.S. trip approaches Reasonably Catholic: Kate McElwee on Grab Bag episode NCR: Women ordination advocates multi-media appeal  NCR: Women’s ordination conference opens in Philadelphia Irish Times: Question Time: What…
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Pope Francis on women priests: “That cannot be done.”

For Immediate Release September 28, 2015 Contact:  Erin Saiz Hanna 401.588.0457 Kate McElwee 607.725.1364 On the papal plane from Philadelphia to Rome, Pope Francis was asked: “Will we one day see women priests in the Catholic church as some groups in the U.S. ask, and some other Christian churches have?” “On women priests, that cannot…
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Fr. Jack McClure removed from ministry for speaking at Women’s Ordination Worldwide Conference

Contact:  Miriam Duignan, Women’s Ordination Worldwide 510-984-8678 As Pope Francis arrives in the United States, a parish priest is banned from ministry for following his conscience. On Saturday, September 20, Fr. Jack McClure shared his support for women’s ordination during a panel held in Philadelphia, PA at the Women’s Ordination Worldwideconference. Precious Blood Fr. McClure…
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Therese Kane Women of Vision and Courage Award – Nominations now open!

Nominate a woman of courage and vision who, like Sr. Theresa Kane, prophetically lives out her vision of an inclusive, equal and just Roman Catholic Church. WOC will also specially honor a Philadelphia leader, grassroots activists and  feminists under forty. Nominations are now open! 

WOC, RCWP respond to attack on woman priest

For Immediate Release Jennifer O’Malley,  RCWP-USA Board President (310) 408-9122 Erin Saiz Hanna, WOC Co-Director (401) 588-0457 Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) and Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) are deeply saddened by the violent attack that Alexandra Dyer, a Roman Catholic Womanpriest in New York City, experienced when leaving work on Wednesday evening.  As she was getting in her car,…
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“Reasonably Catholic”

Listen to Kate McElwee on WESU’s program, “Reasonably Catholic” with Maria Johnson (20:10 minute mark)

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