Author: Kate McElwee

The Nun Justice Project responds to Apostolic Visitation Report (media round-up)

The Nun Justice Project is a grassroots movement supported by the following organizations: American Catholic Council, Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church, Call To Action, Catholics for Choice, CORPUS, DignityUSA, FutureChurch, New Ways Ministry,Quixote Center, RAPPORT (Renewing a Priestly People, Ordination Reconsidered Today), Voice of the Faithful, WATER: Women’s Alliance for Theology,…
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Catholic Groups Applaud Vatican Report as “First Step” in Reconciling with U.S. Sisters

Release date: Tuesday, December 16th For Immediate Release Organizational media contacts:    See list below For general background: Kate McElwee:(Rome)  +39 06 320 3331 kmcelwee@womensordination.org Jim Fitzgerald  (USA)    773 404 0004 x262 jim@cta-usa.org Catholic Groups Applaud Vatican Report as “First Step” in Reconciling with U.S. Sisters; Demand immediate removal of sanctions against LCWR leadership Statement from…
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Open Letter to Cardinal O’Malley

Dear Cardinal Sean O’Malley: In what has already become an infamous “60 Minutes” interview, you stated to Norah O’Donnell: “If I were founding a church, I’d love to have women priests. But Christ founded it, and what he has given us is something different.” As women born well after Vatican II, we are constantly asked: “Why…
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Censured priest finds support in W. Warwick

WEST WARWICK, R.I. — An Irish priest censured by the Vatican for supporting the ordination of women and challenging church teachings on homosexuality received a warm welcome when speaking at Emanuel Lutheran Church on Sunday afternoon. About 75 people turned out to hear Father Tony Flannery, who is on an 18-city, three-week tour of the…
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Catholic Women: “Our Absence Means Synod Lacks Credibility”

For Immediate Release: October 23, 2014 Contacts: Erin Saiz Hanna, 401-588-0457 Marianne Duddy-Burke, 617-669-7810 Gathered in Chicago for its annual meeting, October 17-19, 2014, the members of Women-Church Convergence, a coalition of feminist Catholic groups, issued the following statement as the Extraordinary Synod on the Family was drawing to a close in Rome.  Women-Church Convergence celebrates the diversity…
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Gender, Gospel and Global Justice: WOW 2015

Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) is an ecumenical network of organizations from around the world whose mission is the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church.  Conference Date: 18-20 September, 2015  Location: Downtown Philadelphia Marriott   1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA WOW 2015 aims to: Advocate for gender justice in the Catholic Church and society. Demonstrate…
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Silenced Irish Priest Brings Focus on Conscience to U. S. Tour

Silenced Irish Priest Brings Focus on Conscience to U. S. Tour Contacts: Marianne Duddy-Burke, 617-669-7810 Erin Saiz Hanna, 401-588-0457 Father Tony Flannery, an Irish priest censured by the Vatican and ordered to cease priestly ministry, due to his support for the ordination of women, and his questioning official teaching on homosexuality, contraception and the validity…
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Francis: The Pope’s Calling

From BBC Radio 4: See minute mark 11:20 for Miriam Duignan, Women’s Ordination Worldwide Leadership Circle member and the Women’s Ordination Conference video “Vatican: It’s a Man’s World” Just over a year ago, the phone rang at the office of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. A man asked to speak to Eugenio Scalfari, the paper’s…
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Reformers Carry “The Voices of the People” to the Synod

Contact:  Kate McElwee kmcelwee@womensordination.org (c) 607.725.1364 Deborah Rose-Milavec (w) 216.228.0869 (x 4)    (c ) 513.673.1401 debrose@futurechurch.org For Immediate Release   (U.S.A.) Several members from organizations comprising the coalition of Catholic Organizations for Renewal will be heading to Rome for the Extraordinary Synod on the family from October 5 – October 19, 2014.  Among them will…
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Catholic Tipping Point Tour: Conversations with Fr. Tony Flannery

Fr. Tony Flannery is a native of Galway, and member of the Redemptorist Congregation for more than 50 years. He is the founding member of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) in Ireland. Fr.Tony has been ordered to remain silent and forbidden to minister as a priest because of his refusal to sign a document…
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