Vatican Miscategorizes Women’s Rights Advocates with Child Abusers On July 15, 2010, the Vatican issued a clarification of its canonical procedures for how dioceses should handle priests who sexually abuse children. As part of the statement, they have added that the “attempted ordination of a woman” has now been added to the list of “delicta…
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Today, Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) Executive Director Erin Saiz Hanna made the following statement in response to the Vatican’s announcement that priests who sexually abuse minors, view child pornography, or sexually abuse mentally disabled adults, along with those who ordain women or women who attempt to be ordained, will now be included among the list…
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Erin Saiz Hanna comments in this article from the Associated Press on the Vatican’s labeling of women’s ordination "a grave crime." Article by Nicole Winfield VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and…
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Erin Saiz Hanna is featured in this article on the Vatican’s July 15, 2010 statement calling the ordination of a woman a "grave crime." Vatican: Ordination of Women ‘A Grave Crime’By Nicole Winfield July 15, 2010 VATICAN CITY — The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who…
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Erin Saiz Hanna comments on the Vatican’s labeling the ordination of a woman "a grave crime." By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Vatican’s decision to declare the attempted ordination of women a major church crime reflects "the seriousness with which it holds offenses against the sacrament of holy orders" and is not a…
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WOC’s presence at the Vatican in June 2010 for the "Year for Priests" is featured in this NPR story: Published: June 10, 2010 by Sylvia Poggioli Thousands of Roman Catholic clergy are in Rome to mark the end of the church-designated "Year for Priests." But the celebrations are overshadowed by the worldwide clerical sex abuse…
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CNN covers WOC’s activism and witness at the Vatican in June 2010: Vatican City (CNN) — Activists campaigning for the Catholic Church to ordain women as priests were asked to leave the Vatican on Tuesday.by The CNN Wire Staff They argue that women in the priesthood could have helped lessen the impact of the child abuse…
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For Immediate Release: Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, ehanna@womensordination.org or (202) 675-1006 or U.S. mobile in Rome 011-39-401-588-0457 Women’s Ordination Advocates Hold Press Conference During Vatican Year for Priests celebration, Vigil Calling on Pope to Ordain Women Today, Erin Saiz Hanna, executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC), joined Catholic activists from around…
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CBS coverage of WOC protests at the Vatican in June 2010: (AP) Groups that have long demanded that women be ordained Roman Catholic priests took advantage of the Vatican’s crisis over clerical sex abuse to press their cause Tuesday, demanding the Vatican open discussions on letting women join the priesthood. Representatives of a half-dozen Catholic…
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For Immediate Release Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, ehanna@womensordination.org or (202) 675-1006, U.S. mobile in Rome 011-39-401-588-0457 Women’s Ordination Advocates Hold Press Conference During Vatican Year for Priests Celebration, Vigil Calling on Pope to Ordain Women ROME, ITALY – Today, at 11:00 o’clock in the office of redazione di ADISTA, Via Acciaioli 7, 00186…
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