For Immediate Release: March 14, 2013 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna + 001 401.588.0457 (USA) Statement from Executive Director, Erin Saiz Hanna Rome, Italy: The Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) congratulates Pope Francis on his election to the papacy. Today, we stood with the thousands of faithful Catholics in St. Peter’s Square and prayed for a leader who will heal our broken…
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…. Benedict also gets poor grades from liberal Catholics who felt abandoned by a pope who seemed to roll back the clock on the modernizing reforms of Vatican II and launched a crackdown on Vatican nuns, deemed to have strayed too far from his doctrinal orthodoxy. Some priests are now living in open rebellion…
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NEWARK — For those hoping to change the role of women in the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI’s tenure did not inspire much hope. During his eight years as pope, the Vatican reaffirmed the church’s ban on women priests and publicly rebuked American nuns for promoting "radical feminist" causes. But with a new pope comes…
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PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 14, 2013 Contact: • Alicja Baranowska (Poland): kaplanstwokobiet@wp.eu • Erin Saiz Hanna (USA): +001.401.588.0457; ehanna@womensordination.org • Miriam Duignan (UK): +011.44.1923.779446; m_duignan@hotmail.com • Therese Koturbash (Canada): + 001.204.622.7000; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) Urges New Pope to End Shameful Sin of Sexism in Church Women’s Ordination…
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For Immediate Release February 14, 2013 22 Catholic Organizations Call for a Justice-seeking Pope On Monday, February 11th, Pope Benedict XVI surprised Catholics worldwide by announcing his resignation. Member organizations of Catholic Organizations for Renewal and Women-Church Convergence made the following statement. We join Catholics worldwide in praying for the health of Pope Benedict XVI…
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Executive Director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, Erin Saiz Hanna, discusses the resignation of Pope Benedict with host Barbara Serra. Watch here
For Immediate Release: February 11, 2013 Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna (202) 675-1006 Statement from Executive Director, Erin Saiz Hanna Washington, D.C. – "The Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) respects Pope Benedict’s decision to resign from leadership. We are saddened to hear of the deteriorating health of the pontiff and hold him in prayer. During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI used…
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(Reuters) – Supporters of liberal reform in the Catholic Church said on Monday they hoped Pope Benedict’s successor would give a greater voice to women and reconsider rules on priestly celibacy, women priests and same-sex couples. Benedict, who, like his predecessor John Paul, firmly opposed the ordination of women priests and described gay marriage as…
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Father Giertych, theologian to the Pope, recently stated that women can’t be priests because priests love the church in a characteristically "male way" when they show concern "about structures, about the buildings of the church, about the roof of the church which is leaking…" We say, “I’ll fix the roof … and I can be a priest." …
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[VATICAN CREST OF ARMS] CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH (Dismissal from clerical state and dispensation from clerical duties) Protocol Number 270/2008 The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Reverend Roy L. Bourgeois The Supreme Pontiff, Pope Benedict 16th after having heard the relation of this Congregation about the reproachful behavior1…
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