Read the full article on Variety Susan Sarandon has boarded “Radical Grace” as executive producer in advance of the feature documentary’s world premiere at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Variety has learned. “Grace,” the feature bow of Chicago filmmaker Rebecca Parrish, follows three American feminist nuns whose work for social justice causes sets them…
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Advocacy group Nun Justice Project issued a statement saying it was fitting that in the Year of Consecrated Life, church officials finally recognized the work and leadership of sisters. But the group also wants more. “The Nun Justice Project believes that an apology should also have been given to the sisters, but the end of…
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For Immediate Release: April 16, 2015 Organizational media contacts: Kate McElwee (Rome) +39 393.692.210 Deb Rose-Milavec (USA) 513-673-1401 Statement from the Nun Justice Project: The Nun Justice Project is glad to see that the Vatican has removed their mandate against the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). Today’s joint statement is testimony to the dogged…
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(Read the full article on www.krytykapolityczna.pl – and look for ZUZANNA RADZIK’s book, “Church Women” to be released this April) Chcemy kompletnej zmiany, przebudowy Kościoła, ale nie wierzymy, że uda się zbudować jakiś utopijny feministyczny Kościół w ciągu jednej nocy. Miały dużo szczęścia, w ciemno kupując bilety do Rzymu (Duch Święty? zwykły fart?). Przez znajomych z teatru…
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Women’s Ordination Conference, Women’s Ordination Worldwide and other renewal organizations came together and created a petition and report to encourage Bishops to include more, diverse voices at the 2015 Synod on the Family in October. Here is the report, delivered to the Synod office in Rome. Please share with your local community and parish. Widen the…
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Women of faith will mark International Women’s Day on Sunday March 8, 2015 by joining together in a global, interfaith fast and social media campaign (#EqualinFaith) for gender justice and the equality of women in their faith communities. The day-long fast and social media campaign will culminate in interfaith prayer services and regional gatherings in…
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For Immediate Release Women of faith will mark International Women’s Day on Sunday March 8, 2015 by joining together in a global, interfaith fast and social media campaign (#EqualinFaith) for gender justice and the equality of women in their faith communities. The day-long fast and social media campaign will culminate in interfaith prayer services and…
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Pas d’ordination sacerdotale Le discours inédit du pape a cependant de solides limites. Sur l’ordination de femmes, il est catégorique : « le sacerdoce réservé aux hommes (…) ne se discute pas », écrit-il dans Evangelii Gaudium. François confirme la position de l’Église quand il prête des qualités propres à la femme : « elle est celle qui…
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PBS “To the Contrary” discusses the “Women’s Cultures,” quoting Kate McElwee on the WOC blog. The conversation begins at 8:43, watch the video here
Read the full report on International Business Times A four-day Vatican conference titled “Women’s Cultures: Equality and Difference” kicked off Wednesday in Rome’s Teatro Argentina. A nun, a female plastic surgeon and a theologian spoke — but there were still notable absences, according to Kate McElwee, executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, who attended…
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