Women's Ordination Conference

Jpg Founded in 1975, the Women’s Ordination Conference is the oldest and largest national organization that works to ordain women as priests, deacons and bishops into an inclusive and accountable Catholic church.

The collective vision of WOC is a Roman Catholic Church that affirms women’s gifts, responds by calling them to ministry and ordination, openly and actively supports women’s voices, and reflects the example of Jesus – welcoming all to the table.

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Kate McElwee, Co-Executive Director This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dorothea Schurr, Administrative Assistant This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Website: www.womensordination.org

Equal in Faith

WOC works with interfaith feminists to foster solidarity and greater awareness to our shared call for gender justice in religion. The Equal in Faith coalition was founded in 2013 by an interfaith coalition of women, including representatives from Ordain Women (Mormon), the Women's Ordination Conference (Roman Catholic), and Ordain Women Now (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod).

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WOC's Ministry of Irritation challenges the Vatican's policies regarding women by engaging the hierarchy and organizing on a grassroots level to bring public attention to the issue of women's ordination and the need for structural change in the church.

Nun Justice

During the Vatican crackdown on U.S. sisters and LCWR, WOC helped found and lead the "Nun Justice Project," collecting more than 65,000 signatures in support of the sisters and organizing hundreds of vigils across the U.S.

Women's Ordination Worldwide

Here Sr. Theresa Kane, RSM addresses the five hundred women's ordination advocates and leaders from 19 countries and 5 continents gathered for the Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW), "Gender, Gospel, and Global Justice" conference held in September 2015. The conference's theme linked the exclusion of women from priesthood to the greater inequalities and injustices experienced by women worldwide.

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