Press Releases

For immediate release: (202) 675-1006 Statement from WOC Executive Director, Erin Saiz Hanna The Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) is deeply saddened by yesterday’s announcement that human rights lawyer and founder of the Mormon organization Ordain Women, Kate Kelly, was excommunicated by her church. WOC stands in solidarity with Kate, the members of Ordain Women, and all those who bravely…
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WOMEN’S ORDINATION WORLDWIDE (WOW) For Immediate International Release Contact: Miriam Duignan (UK): +44.7970 926910; m_duignan@hotmail.com Erin Saiz Hanna (USA): +1.401.588.0457; ehanna@womensordination.org Therese Koturbash (Canada): +1.204.648.5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com Alicja Baranowska (Poland/Belgium): kaplanstwokobiet@wp.eu   POPE FRANCIS: IT’S TIME TO TALK Rome, Italy: Today, May 22, the Church marks the 20th anniversary of ‘the papal no’ — the Apostolic…
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For Immediate Release: May 15, 2015  Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna + 001 202.675.1006  (USA) 16 Catholic Organizations Call on Pope Francis to Apologize to U.S. Nuns; Launch Petition Washington, DC – The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an umbrella group representing 80% of the 57,000 nuns in the United States, remains under scrutiny from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). In the spring of 2012, the CDF issued a statement…
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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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