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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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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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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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…
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From the Global Sisters Report, By Dan Stockman A coalition of progressive Catholic organizations has delivered nearly 18,000 petitions to Pope Francis, asking him to remove the orders for the largest leadership group of American women religious to reform. Nun Justice Project, a coalition of 15 progressive Catholic organizations in the United States, hand delivered more…
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WASHINGTON – A 17,000-name petition in support of Roman Catholic nuns in the United States deemed too liberal by the Vatican has been delivered to the Holy See, organizers said Monday. It asks Pope Francis “to personally intervene” to remove “unjust mandates” imposed two years ago on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which…
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Une pétition signée par 17.000 personnes apportant leur soutien aux religieuses américaines, en conflit avec le Vaticanqui leur reproche des prises de position trop libérales, a été transmise au Vatican, ont indiqué aujourd’hui les organisateurs de la campagne. La lettre ouverte, remise vendredi par Kate McElwee, dirigeante de l’association Nun Justice Project, s’adresse directement au pape…
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For Immediate Release Contacts: Ryan Hoffmann: 773.531.9203, ryan@cta-usa.org Kate McElwee: +1 607.725.1364 (USA), +39 393.692.2100 (Italy) kmcelwee@womensordination.org Deborah Rose-Milavec: 216.228.0868 x 4, 513.673.1401, debrose@futurechurch.org Thousands ask Pope Francis to remove unjust mandate against U.S. Sisters Catholics are coming together in unprecedented fashion to support U.S. women religious. Over 17,500 signed petitions or sent letters…
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On Tuesday, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith told L’Osservatore Romano newspaper “above all we have to clarify that we are not misogynists, we don’t want to gobble up a woman a day!” The Vatican is not misogynistic??? We beg to differ. And we have proof. Introducing…
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