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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
From the Irish Independent: An international meeting of Catholic women priests, women bishops and their support groups which met in Co Louth at the weekend has said the Vatican must overturn its ban on women’s ordination. The international delegates from Ireland, the US, UK and Australia also expressed anger over the Vatican’s categorisation of female…
Read more
WOC Advert
You must be logged in to post a comment.