Current Action Alerts

UPDATE: Listen to audio of Karen Gargamelli-McCreight’s speech during the panel discussion: At the end of the global Synod on Youth, the Faith Life, and Vocations in October, the Catholic bishops who gathered issued a document with some of the Church’s strongest language yet about the inclusion of women in its all-male decision-making structures. It…
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As we mark the beginning of Women’s History Month, we invite you to join us in a collaborative, participatory art project: #ImagingChurch. For the vast majority of our faith history, our images of what is holy, what is church, what is ministry have been created by men. As we celebrate the unsung and oft-hidden contributions…
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Welcome to the Women’s Ordination Conference Activist Toolkit for Today! Women’s Ordination Conference is a global movement that advocates for women’s ordination into a renewed priestly ministry in the Roman Catholic Church. We are activists, advocates, theologians, parish workers, educators, and ministers who work tirelessly to bring our message of gender equality to the Vatican…
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On February 23, 2019, as the meeting in Rome about clergy sexual abuse enters its last day, we invite you to  wear a blue armband to the vigil Mass at your parish or faith community to prayerfully call for the inclusion and equitable representation of:   survivors of sexual abuse and their families, lay people, especially women, groups and experts…
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Are you, or is someone you know, a passionate advocate for women’s equality in the Roman Catholic Church? Nominations to join our Board of Directors are now open! Learn more about becoming a member of the board, and fill out the application, here.

We already know that the bishops are out-of-touch with the people they are supposed to shepherd.  But now we have data to support it. A new study about women deacons shows how profoundly bishops misunderstand what the people of God support and need. According to a study from Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research on the…
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This Advent, Women’s Ordination Conference is offering a feminist Advent calendar to enrich your prayer and preparation for Christmas. Check the calendar every day for reflections, quotes, images, music and more as we wait in joyful hope this season.

501 years ago on October 31, as an obscure Catholic priest, Martin Luther, posted his 95 Theses for the reform of his beloved Catholic Church on the door of a church in Germany. In that same spirit, you’re invited to post 5 Theses for reform of the Church in anticipation of the annual meeting of…
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In light of the continued denial of a right to vote for women participating in the upcoming Synod on Youth, the Faith Life, and Vocational Discernment, we are happy to collaborate with our Italian sisters—Donne per la Chiesa— and with Catholic Women Speak in writing a letter to those women who have been invited to participate…
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At the Synod on Youth, Faith, and Vocational Discernment, only 10% of the participants are women – and they are non-voting members. Even with the new Synod guidelines, which creates the possibility for non-ordained voting members for Synod, when asked why women are still excluded, the Vatican offered this argument: “For now, that is how…
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