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Erin Saiz Hanna was featured in the Times Special "The Top 10 of Everything of 2010" highlighting women priests. 6. Women Priests, In Spite of the Vatican By Howard Chua-Eoan   In July, the Vatican branded the ordination of women as priests a delictum gravius, or grave crime, the same label it has given pedophilia. That may…
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WOC was featured in a Times Magazine article about Catholic womenpriests.  Defying the Vatican, Catholic Women Claim Priesthood by Tim Padgett  Like any good priest, Judy Lee knows how to use a Bible story. One of the readings for Roman Catholic Masses on a recent Sunday, from the Book of Wisdom, recounts how the Hebrews…
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Women’s Ordination Worldwide was mentioned in this Time article about woman priest Alta Jacko and the women’s ordination movement. The Push to Ordain Female Priests Gains Ground By Dawn Reiss Alta Jacko is the mother of eight children. She is also an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Jacko, 81, who earned her master’s…
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Click here to watch CNN’s coverage of WOC’s 35th anniversary.

Jamie L Manson, WOC board member writes an article about the dilemma of both loving one’s local Roman Cahtolic parish/church while disagreeing with the stances the Roman Catholic Church has taken. Relationships create church, not loyalty to the institution Written by Jamie L Manson They disagree with the Roman Catholic Church’s stances on women, ordination,…
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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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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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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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