Press Releases

In November 2013 fifteen U.S. Catholic organizations responded to the Vatican’s call for bishops globally to survey Catholics on family issues.  While bishops’ conferences throughout Europe and Asia made their surveys public, the U.S. bishops put forth no unified effort to survey the laity. The online questionnaire was completed by more than 16,000 Catholics in…
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Groups Send Letter Urging Increase in Women’s Leadership, Access to Communion Contact:  Anthony Padovano, 973-539-8732 Linda Pinto, 570-296-5326 As the first anniversary of Pope Francis’ election approaches, leaders of 52 organizations from the United States, Europe, and Asia working towards renewal and reform in the Catholic Church have sent a letter to the Pope. They…
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WOMEN’S ORDINATION WORLDWIDE (WOW) PRESS RELEASE For Immediate International Release November 27, 2013 Contact: Miriam Duignan (UK): +011.44.1923.779446;m_duignan@hotmail.com Erin Saiz Hanna (USA): +01.401.588.0457; ehanna@womensordination.org Therese Koturbash (Canada): +01.204.648.5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com Alicja Baranowska (Poland/Belgium): kaplanstwokobiet@wp.eu   WOW: POPE FRANCIS — PRIESTHOOD IS A CALL TO SERVICE AND WOMEN ARE CALLED In his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium Pope Francis explicitly challenges global leaders…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts:  Deborah Rose-Milavec, 513-673-1401 Kate Conmy, 607-725-1364 Marianne Duddy-Burke, 617-669-7810 November 12, 2013. Earlier today, a group of 15 progressive Catholic organizations launched an on-line survey to enable U.S. Catholics to provide input to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and to the Vatican in preparation for an upcoming Synod on the Family. Over 1,200…
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Erin Saiz Hanna, Executive Director                                                       Women’s Ordination Conference                                202 675-1006              Lorie Winder, Media Coordinator,  Ordain Women  310-497-0046     Interfaith feminists challenge discrimination in religion on National…
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Contact: Miriam Duignan, WOW Leadership Circle (United Kingdom) t: 011.44.1923.77946; e: m_duignan@hotmail.com Therese Koturbash, WOW Communications Coordinator (Canada) t: 001.204.648.5720: e: t.m.koturbash@gmail.com Alicja Baranowska, WOW Communications Task Force (Belgium + Poland) e: alicja.baranowska@wp.pl ‘No Women Priests?’ WOW Responds to Pope Francis  On the question of ‘women’, WOW is alarmed by remarks made by Pope Francis during an interview with international…
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For Immediate Release: July 29, 2013   Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna  + 001 202.675.1006  (USA) Statement from Executive Director, Erin Saiz Hanna Washington, DC – "The Women’s Ordination Conference is deeply discouraged to learn of Pope Francis’ remarks regarding women’s ordination. In an interview given to reporters on July 28 en route to Rome from Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis…
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Reform-minded Austrian cleric Helmut Schüller, rejected from speaking at several Catholic institutions, to speak at Lutheran church WASHINGTON – Austrian reformer-priest Fr. Helmut Schüller is continuing his speaking tour of the United States in D.C. Monday night. This will follow speaking engagements in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, which have been marked with controversy.…
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Contact:  Erin Saiz Hanna, ehanna@womensordination.org 202.675.1006 Sr. Christine Schenk, chris@futurechurch.org 216.513.3647 Fr. Helmut Schüller, 917.743.4953 (US)   "Banned in Boston" Austrian priest Helmut Schüller begins first U.S. tour, calling for institutional change and inclusive priesthood   Fr. Helmut Schüller will begin his first U.S. speaking tour, The Catholic Tipping Point: Conversations, in New York, Tuesday, July 16. Covering fifteen cities coast to coast, the…
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For Immediate Release Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna,  202.675.1006 Sr. Christine Schenk, 216.513.3647   Reformist Austrian priest to tour U.S. this summer, calling for institutional change and inclusive priesthood   Fr. Helmut Schüller, founder of the Austrian Priests’ Initiative-a movement organized to address the global crisis of priest shortages-will begin his first national speaking tour in New York, this…
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