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Catholic organizations launch new effort, “Listening to Women,” to initiate dialogue, pastoral care

For Immediate Release Contacts: Kate McElwee, Executive Director of Women’s Ordination Conference, kmcelwee@womensordination.org, USA: +1 607-725-1364, Italy: +39 393 692 2100 Gloria Ulterino, RAPPORT, glorialbf@aol.com United States and Australia:  A new collaboration, “Listening to Women” (www.listeningtowomen.org), aims to create safe spaces for women to assess a parish’s pastoral care, spiritual growth, and opportunities for women…
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Leading German politician supports women priests

The International Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW), which was founded at the first Women’s Synod in 1996 in Gmunden, Austria, and is committed to women in the diaconate and priesthood in the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, confirming and documenting their vocations, welcomes the explicit and clear statement of the new General Secretary of the Christian Democratic…
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Women-Church Convergence Statement against Gun Violence

The letter below was sent by Members of Women-Church Convergence to the Student Leaders of March for Our Lives in Parkland, Florida.   May 4, 2018             Dear Anti-Gun Violence Leaders,             We, religious feminists rooted in the Catholic tradition, greet, applaud, and join you in your efforts to eradicate gun violence. Your courageous and…
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WOW supports Cardinal’s call for a Council to review the question of women’s ordination

May 4, 2018 In a wide-ranging interview with Salzburger Nachrichten, Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, and member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, says a future Council should review the question of the ordination of women as deacons, priests and bishops. Responding to a “developing need,” Schönborn believes these “big questions” should not…
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Catholic Women Called

We know that Catholic women are called by God and by their communities: called to priesthood, to equality, and to full participation in the life of the Church. We also know that too often, their call remains untold, dismissed, or rejected by the institutional Church. That’s why Women’s Ordination Worldwide and Women’s Ordination Conference are…
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Francis still falls short with Catholic women, feminist scholars say

NEW YORK — In five years, Pope Francis has led a call to save humanity from climate change, propelled a renewed vision on social justice and offered a clear welcome to estranged Catholics. But he still has issues with women which dampen that positive impact, a consensus emerged from feminist scholars and others at an April…
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Women no longer content to be silent on lack of church role

While there have been important cultural advances for women in terms of their role in society, the one institution that does not appear to have altered its attitude towards women to any great degree is the Roman Catholic Church. This is despite Pope Francis’s 2013 remarks that women are “essential for the church”. It seems…
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