Dignity and Equality
Women in Sacramental Ministry
Moving ahead with women’s sacramental ministries
Women in the Roman Catholic Church are excluded from all ordained ministries and experience incredible resistance when attempting to claim their equality and dignity. Nevertheless, women have never stopped demanding admission to all sacramental ministries.
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In recent years, discourse, initiatives, conferences, and publications around this issue have increased significantly, adding great urgency to the growing calls for women's sacramental ministries.
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Around the world women are calling out discriminatory traditions and misogynistic teachings, language, structures, and practices that are used to exclude women and further exploit and abuse their charisms and vocations
Women expect answers and visible signs from the Synod that the Church is committed to implement their votes and their rights. Women therefore demand an end to the Vatican's delaying tactics and insist that the Church must recognises their vocations to sacramental ministry.
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Worldwide Action & Events
Numerous groups and many women around the world do not want to accept the Pope's harsh "no" or the exclusion of issues relevant to women so they are launching initiatives and campaigns to give women a voice.
"Why not me"
We invite all women and men to take part in the campaign "Why not me?" for the sacramental diaconate of women
Open Letter to Pope Francis
CWC/WAC
We believe the topic of women's ministry and equality in the Church should continue to be discussed at the next session of the Synod on Synodality in October 2024.
Organisations
Women's Ordination Conference
The uncompromising feminist voice for women’s ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church since 1975
#JuniaInitiative, Schweiz
"Gott ist so viel mehr als Herr"
Wir sind bereit für eine Ordination zum sakramentalen Dienst. Damit unsere Kirche Menschen, unabhängig von Geschlecht und Lebensform, in die Seelsorge entsenden kann
Presbiteras Católicas Romanas América del Sur
Somos un Movimiento Internacional dentro de la Iglesia Católica, en la búsqueda de Justicia e igualdad para mujeres y hombres en la inclusividad según la propuesta de Jesús de Nazaret
Books -Testimonials
Mujeres sacerdotes cuando?
Maria José Arana, Adelaide Baracco
Diálogos en torno al sacerdocio
de las mujeres
Weil Gott es so will:
Frauen erzählen von ihrer Berufung zur Diakonin und Priesterin,
Sr. Philippa Rath
Frauen ins Amt:
Männer solidarisieren sich; Sr. Philippa Rath, Burkhard Hose
CWC: Moving ahead with women’s sacramental ministries
Presentation Kate Mc Elwee
Executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference
Presentation Dr. Agnes M. Brazal
Senior professor at La Salle University in the Philippines
Presentation Dr. Olga Consuelo Vélez
Professor and researcher at Fundación Universitaria San Alfonso in Colombia
Conclusion
Prayer Annastacia Mphuti
