<div dir="auto">Amazing! The US Bishops think women’s ordination is a justice issue! Their eyes are being opened. Thank you Sophia! Catherine </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Women's Ordination Conference</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:woc@womensordination.org">woc@womensordination.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 3:15 PM<br>Subject: USCCB National Synthesis includes call for women's ordination<br>To: <<a href="mailto:catherine.walther@gmail.com">catherine.walther@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The US bishops have now made their </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001by7sTxKPYM0oswRVZUBuExY2PHta3cvKkUAzu7Vv_xRKxwxioLo1VkDMp-jOX_3Z_w8ok8tyayYbAA-9eb-dWOet2EYGq2Z_lek-aEVJ26OvtM7rDdd3bGd_SA2shXhIwqZXjoaSIDmOFPmKZxgSWdv-iKvmmsudcUouBuPPu3wG18tlGURkCMyfj84kW5PouSxIxff750dPPvttGwcCh_wNvJ0sJXx_mauZhdIXnkuaqsMuD6AR6rUG3umJI2InXX2hw9-zXS-Zwu7Qi8Cgw3GLHzeDunKR1RLYtOiO88cgMnrnx8CNfYm0dis-It0iHsZ0_u5Bi6ffOKBGnm2YODfPO8MCJcvF&c=ZXz1lFTf6_CM8Jvoq-4zG7HSlVffa1q69bMCKltWGXWYXXGtROxUnQ==&ch=z-kwB1IhmvfPweMnb4NMum1stYahOdyAdZMOoI2bYttW2PDt8VNL4w==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">national synthesis</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> of diocesan synod sessions publicly available, and if that wasn't enough of a surprise, it also included this quote: </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic">“There was a desire for stronger leadership, discernment, and decision-making roles for women – both lay and religious – in their parishes and communities: ‘people mentioned a variety of ways in which women could exercise leadership, including preaching and ordination as deacon or priest. </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Ordination for women emerged not primarily as a solution to the problem of the priest shortage, but as a matter of justice.’</span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic">”</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Even filtered through the USCCB, a clear and bold call for women's ordination as a matter of justice made it into the document. That is an amazing thing. And would not, could not, happen without you! </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Thank you</span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> for the ways you courageously and vulnerably engaged with the synod —through WOC, your parish, or other reform groups. </span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This report joins a global chorus of voices calling out for Gospel equality. </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria,Georgia,Times New Roman,serif">In England, Ireland, southern Africa, Australia, Germany, Spain, Canada, and elsewhere, the People of God long for ordination justice. (See below for our blog series on this!)</span>
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<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria,Georgia,Times New Roman,serif">Now, the process zooms out to the </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria,Georgia,Times New Roman,serif;font-weight:bold">Continental Phase</span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria,Georgia,Times New Roman,serif">, where groups of lay experts and bishops representing large geographical and "e</span>piscopal<span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria,Georgia,Times New Roman,serif"> regions" so to speak, will draft a “Final Document for the Continental Phase'' summarizing themes collected in national reports. These documents will then form the basis of the </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria,Georgia,Times New Roman,serif;font-style:italic">Instrumentum Laboris, </span><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria,Georgia,Times New Roman,serif">or working document, for the final stage of the synod.</span>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">While not much is known yet about who has been hand-picked by the hierarchy to guide this phase of the process - largely behind closed doors - we know from experience that our efforts must continue. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The preparatory documents for the synod emphasized that this process is not about creating more documents, and we agree. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">So even as we celebrate the recognition of a long-overdue injustice in the church (and we should!), and the deep listening that brought us to this moment, we cannot put our faith in words alone. </span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">WOC is committed to continuing the journey so that not only will our voices carry to the Vatican, but carry the church to a new day. Thank you for not just </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic">talking the talk</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, but walking the walk of justice with us. The work continues. </span>
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<div><div><div>Synod series on the WOC Blog</div></div></div>
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<div><div><div>On our blog, "The Table," writer Regina Bannan evaluates the synod processes of Australia, Germany, Ireland, the U.S., and the UK. Read her series here: <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001by7sTxKPYM0oswRVZUBuExY2PHta3cvKkUAzu7Vv_xRKxwxioLo1VkDMp-jOX_3ZwceS7Bd23B_CpKU3OSWpbSXM6Lj68yyklBKD-P2WCA5dw-MR4HeL3FuCnuP63ImI30ew-7ppcKkjxToRPzHRYL-DGnKxqW2Ha1v9_KMCshZZqkeciSxUc9H5FxJMr-rF&c=ZXz1lFTf6_CM8Jvoq-4zG7HSlVffa1q69bMCKltWGXWYXXGtROxUnQ==&ch=z-kwB1IhmvfPweMnb4NMum1stYahOdyAdZMOoI2bYttW2PDt8VNL4w==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight:bold;color:#0000ff;font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">The Table</a>
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<div><div><div>A 12-Day "Bouquet" with St. <span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(70,31,124)">Thérèse</span>, patron saint of women's ordination</div></div></div>
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<div>Today we begin our "12-Day Bouquet" of reflection as we lead up to the Oct. 1 feast day of St.<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Thérèse </span>of Lisieux, the patron saint of women's ordination who wrote, "I feel in me the vocation of priest!"</div>
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</div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">May you walk in joy as love calls us on.<span></span></span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div>