Category: Pink Smoke Over the Vatican

March 12th, 2014

1 Year Anniversary of … Pink Smoke over the Vatican!

One year ago today, Erin and I were rushing from Fiumicino airport to a convent in Rome to gather our coalition and drive to Piazza Garibaldi to raise pink smoke over the Vatican. It seemed poetic at the time, to cross an ocean to light something on fire, but it was an precedented and powerful…
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February 22nd, 2014

3 years at WOC!

Today is my 3-year anniversary on staff at the Women’s Ordination Conference! Hoping you’re the nostalgic-type like me, and will enjoy a little walk down memory lane together. It is because of our members that I have the opportunity to do so many incredible things around the world, with such amazing colleagues — thank you…
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October 5th, 2012

Insights of an Intern

I’ve now been here at WOC for almost three months and I can’t believe how much I have learned and done already! Hours of translating WOC’s values, mission, and history has proven worthwhile with the latest addition of our WOC en español tab on the website.  If you recall any of your Spanish classes from the…
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March 12th, 2012

ICYMI: Catholic News Weekend Round-Up

(ICYMI) In case you missed it: Catholic News Weekend Round-Up: 13 Religious Women to Watch in 2012, via the Center for American Progress Women Priests Stand in Solidarity with Prophet of Justice, Fr. Roy Bourgeois: Press Release from The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. Blair takes on the Pope by backing gay marriage British…
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March 7th, 2012

The Christlike Reversal: a Pink Smoke Over the Vatican Review

The Christlike Reversal: a Pink Smoke Over the Vatican Review Guest Post by Janice Poss, WOC Member “The Buddha and Jesus have to meet every moment in each of us.  Each of us in our daily practice needs to touch the spirit of Buddha and the spirit of Jesus so that they manifest…It is like…
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