[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Kate McElwee, Catholic Women Strike - TOMORROW
Mary Lou Jorgensen-Bacher
mljb57 at yahoo.ca
Wed Feb 19 19:41:11 PST 2025
Catherine,
Does this mean that at "3:00", that we can see the "ROOT and BRANCH"????? Are we on the N.Y. tIme, or NOT? Please reply!! Thank You very MUCH!
I do love you,
Mary Lou Jorgensen-BacherKeeper of the Flame
On Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 11:39:07 a.m. EST, Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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From: Root & Branch Synod <hello at rootandbranchsynod.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 09:30
Subject: Kate McElwee, Catholic Women Strike - TOMORROW
To: Catherine Walther <catherine.walther at gmail.com>
20.00 Thursday 20th Feb
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ROOT & BRANCH
Community for Reform
international grassroots for an inclusive, just & safe Roman Catholic Church.
hello at rootandbranchsynod.org www.rootandbranchsynod.org
No. 146 19/02/2025
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| REMINDER:
tomorrow!
KATE McELWEE
Executive Director, Women's Ordination Conference
CATHOLIC WOMEN STRIKE |
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THIS LENT
TOMORROW EVENING!
Come meet Kate and
find out more with Root & Branch
Thursday 20th February,
8pm London time
9pm Rome 3pm New York 12 noon Los Angeles
Friday 21st February
1.30am Mumbai 4am Perth 7am Sydney 9am Wellington
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"But why?
What will
Father say?"
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Let me quote Soline Humbert Vatinel, who has carried a call to priesthood since her youth:
“I am now in my sixties, I have never lost that sense of vocation despite the church authorities’ determined efforts to kill it or to persuade me to abandon it. Pope Francis, who is all in favor of open doors, is only the latest pope to reaffirm that the door to women priests is closed…
Obviously he believes we have nothing of value to communicate, no truth to share, no word from the Spirit. It has been the official church policy and practice to this very day to treat us as non-persons, to shun us, to freeze us out. In a patriarchal church we simply don’t exist.”
She goes on:
“There is widespread spiritual abuse in the church…. I am talking about church rules, teachings, practices which do injury to one’s spirit and conscience, which are destructive and anything but life-giving. They are so much part and parcel of the church culture, have been sacralised and decreed as divinely endorsed, they are mostly not even recognised consciously as being abusive.” *
Her words are also about all women in our Church. They could equally be about us excluded LGBT+. Or about all those of us in “irregular” relationships. Or in other denominations, faiths and marriages. Or all those of us practising birth-control. Or - the most silenced of all - our vulnerable people and children who are physically, mentally or spiritually abused.
The October 2024 Synod concluded without action on women’s leadership or the possibility of ordination to the diaconate or priesthood. Yet this was the very move that we, the faithful, had most asked for in our deliberations.
*Soline Humbert "Of Synodality and Closed Doors, Pain and Hope" March 2022. |
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CATHOLIC WOMEN STRIKE: Global Witness for Equality
is calling on all of us (men welcome too!)
to withhold our labour, our commitments, our financial support
throughout Lent, from 5 March to 20 April.
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Catholic women urged to strike over ‘betrayal’ on ordination.
Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian, 24/11/2024
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And we need to ask ourselves:
Why are Catholics so reluctant to stand up for what we actually know is right?
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| REGISTER for KATE McELWEE, CWS 20th Feb |
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Thursday 20th February, 8pm London time
9pm Rome 3pm New York 12 noon Los Angeles
Friday 21st February
1.30am Mumbai 4am Perth 7am Sydney 9am Wellington
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You might like to sign the Groundswell petition to Pope Francis
and Cardinal Victor Fernandez
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See you tomorrow,
Warmest greetings,
R&B Core team and Community.
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Huge thanks
to our generous community who help us so much with prayer and support
and who continue to keep R&B on the road.
Thank you so much!
CLICK HERE
to help build a safe, just and inclusive Catholic Church.
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