[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Kate McElwee, Catholic Women Strike - TOMORROW

Thu Feb 20 06:50:41 PST 2025

Yes. It’s at 3 pm our time. See you there, ❤️Catherine

When life wins there will be no losers. A'Ida Shibli

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM Mary Lou Jorgensen-Bacher via
Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> 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-Bacher
> Keeper of the Flame
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>
> 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
>
> *R*
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> *            No. 146             19/02/2025*
> *REMINDER:*
> tomorrow!
>
> *KATE McELWEE*
> Executive Director, Women's Ordination Conference
> *CATHOLIC WOMEN STRIKE*
>
> <https://rootandbranchsynod.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dfea9a6f4410c4dbe6a4d95c4&id=073f4b9e74&e=f4cd4422be>
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> *THIS LENT*
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> *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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>
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> *"But why? What will Father say?"*
>
>
> 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.
> <https://rootandbranchsynod.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dfea9a6f4410c4dbe6a4d95c4&id=1fd4364440&e=f4cd4422be>
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> **Soline Humbert "Of Synodality and Closed Doors, Pain and Hope" March
> 2022. *
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> CATHOLIC WOMEN STRIKE: Global Witness for Equality
> <https://rootandbranchsynod.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dfea9a6f4410c4dbe6a4d95c4&id=bdb5cf4c78&e=f4cd4422be>
>
> 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.
>
> *Catholic women urged to strike over ‘betrayal’ on ordination
> <https://rootandbranchsynod.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dfea9a6f4410c4dbe6a4d95c4&id=5fe5a218c1&e=f4cd4422be>.*
> Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian, 24/11/2024
>
> And we need to ask ourselves:
> *Why are Catholics so reluctant to stand up for what we actually know is
> right?*
> 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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