Le pape François baisse les bras concernant les femmes dans son exhortation apostolique sur l'Amazonie - Le 13 février 2020

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Le pape François baisse les bras concernant les femmes dans son exhortation apostolique sur l'Amazonie

Communiqué de presse du Women's Ordination Worldwide [WOW]

Le 13 février 2020

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À la lecture du document postsynodal, WOW conclut que c'est au détriment du Christ crucifié représenté sur le visage des femmes que le pape François se propose de continuer à diriger le spectacle mâle catholique romain [Roman Catholic man show]. Renonçant à une occasion importante de faire une avancée pour les femmes, François a choisi de perpétuer le scandaleux club fermé réservé aux hommes lequel, comme il le souligne impudemment dans le document, est soutenu par des femmes ayant un statut de deuxième classe tout en faisant la plupart du travail sans aucune reconnaissance.

Malgré son souci de l'environnement et de la catastrophe climatique mondiale, François ne parvient absolument pas à relier le peu de considération pour l'environnement au peu de considération du féminin dans le monde et en particulier dans notre propre Église. Étonnamment, François défend la prêtrise masculine sur la base intenable de l'image conjugale qui affirme que le prêtre représente l’époux et l'Église l’épouse. Concrètement, cette pratique souligne de façon inimaginable la façon dont les hommes peuvent remplir tous les rôles grâce à une pansexualité fluide de genre accordée aux prêtres masculins. Alors que le prêtre mâle remplace l’époux, il remplace également l’épouse. Dans cette vision tordue, les femmes ne sont que des réceptrices passives à la source et au sommet de notre foi. Les femmes sont absolument inutiles dans le fonctionnement de l'Église, sauf pour faire des enfants et pour soutenir le spectacle mâle catholique romain. Cette vision des choses démontre une croyance aveugle en un concept appelé complémentarité, concept utilisé par le Vatican pour prétendre que les femmes et les hommes ont par nature des rôles différents. Mais, en réalité, cela signifie simplement que les hommes peuvent tout faire et que les femmes ne peuvent faire que ce que les hommes veulent qu’elles fassent et que cela leur sert.

Son rejet des femmes du service ministériel n'est rien de moins qu'une trahison de toute la communauté des croyants et des croyantes qui attend désespérément des prêtres enracinés dans leur culture. Dieu appelle des femmes à la prêtrise et au diaconat. Lorsqu'on examine en connaissance de cause les efforts déployés par le Vatican pour justifier l'exclusion des femmes des ministères ordonnés, il est clair que :

  • il n'y a aucune raison dans les Écritures, dans la théologie ou dans la tradition de l'Église de soutenir une prêtrise exclusivement masculine. C’est ce qui ressort du vaste corpus d'études disponibles sur le site Web universitaire womenpriests.org;

  • pendant des siècles, la hiérarchie a entretenu chez les fidèles, comme si c'était la vérité, un préjugé envers les femmes. Ce préjugé est à la base de la justification officielle du Vatican pour exclure les femmes du sacerdoce et du diaconat. Par son exhortation apostolique postsynodale sur l’Amazonie, le pape François insiste pour la perpétuer.

Pape François, il est grand temps que votre club « pour hommes seulement » reconnaisse que les femmes ne sont pas « autres » mais qu'elles sont pleinement humaines. L'exclusion continue de la femme de la prêtrise est une injustice flagrante qui nuit à l'Église et signale au monde qu'il est acceptable de continuer à traiter les femmes comme des moins que rien. Dans ce scénario, on ne peut guère éprouver de sympathie pour un leadership qui compose maladroitement avec le fait que les bancs d’église se vident et qu'un nombre croissant d'églises catholiques soient désaffectées.

Dans l'état actuel des choses, l'Église demeure une Église d'hommes où les femmes sont autorisées à pratiquer leur culte, à fournir des biens et des services et à être estampillées avec quelque chose de moins que les icônes du Christ. Pourtant nous le sommes pleinement, entièrement, véritablement et complètement.

Contacts pour la presse

Kate McElwee (USA/Italy): +39 393 692 2100; kmcelwee@womensordination.org

Miriam Duignan (UK/Ireland): +44 7970 926910; miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com

Alicja Baranowska(Belgium & Poland): +32 488 67 60 20 alicja.baranowska@wp.pl

Therese Koturbash (Canada): +1 204 648 5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com

Merci à Pauline Jacob pour la traduction.

Fondée en 1996, la Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) est un réseau international de groupes dont la mission actuelle est de s’assurer que les femmes catholiques soient admises dans tous les ministères ordonnés dans l’Église. WOW s’appuie sur le principe évangélique d’égalité et s’oppose donc à toute discrimination. « Il n’y a ni Juif ni Grec, il n’y a ni esclave ni homme libre, il n’y a ni mâle ni femelle, car vous ne faites qu’un dans le Christ Jésus (Ga 3, 28).

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Querida Amazonía: El Fracaso Del Papa Francisco Hacia Las Mujeres - 13 de febrero de 2020

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QUERIDA AMAZONÍA: EL FRACASO DEL PAPA FRANCISCO HACIA LAS MUJERES

13 de febrero de 2020

Para publicación inmediata.

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Contactos de prensa:

·         Kate McElwee (EE.UU./Italia): +39 393 692 2100; kmcelwee@womensordination.org

·         Miriam Duignan (Reino Unido/Irlanda): +44 7970 926910; miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com

·         Alicja Baranowska(Bélgica y Polonia): +32 488 67 60 20  alicja.baranowska@wp.pl

·         Therese Koturbash (Canadá): +1 204 648 5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com 

Gracias a Mónica Trevino Alvarez por la traducción

Al leer el documento post-sinodal Querida Amazonía podemos concluir que el Papa Francisco propone continuar dirigiendo el espectáculo del hombre católico, mientras que en la parte posterior de un Cristo crucificado se siguen encontrando las miradas de las mujeres. Francisco prefirió darle la espalda a la oportunidad de generar avances significativos para las mujeres. En cambio, ha optado por seguir perpetrando al vergonzoso Club de Toby. Como se señala descaradamente en el documento las mujeres, quienes realizan gran parte del trabajo en las parroquias, siguen siendo tratadas como ciudadanas de segunda clase.

A pesar de la preocupación de Francisco por el medio ambiente y la catástrofe medioambiental, no logra conectar la marginalización de éste con la vida de las mujeres dentro y fuera de la Iglesia. Impresionantemente, Francisco recurre al matrimonio de sacerdotes con la Iglesia para afirmar que la ordenación es exclusiva para hombres. En la práctica esta idea afirma que los hombres pueden cumplir todos los roles a través de una pansexualidad y género fluido otorgado a los sacerdotes. El sacerdote sustituye tanto al novio como a la novia. Ante este roto panorama, las mujeres son vistas como receptoras pasivas de fe. Son simplemente innecesarias para el funcionamiento de la iglesia, exceptuando a la maternidad y el apoyo al teatro de los hombres. Esta teoría revela la creencia ciega en la complementariedad, concepto acuñado por el Vaticano para afirmar que mujeres y hombres están destinados a distintos roles. Sin embargo, en realidad significa que ellos pueden hacer todo y que ellas sólo pueden hacer lo que se les manda.

El rechazo al servicio ministerial de las mujeres es una traición a toda la comunidad de fe que espera desesperadamente la ordenación de mujeres y hombres culturalmente competentes. Dios llama a las mujeres al sacerdocio y al diaconado. Al realizar un examen informado de los esfuerzos del Vaticano para justificar la exclusión de las mujeres del ministerio ordenado, queda claro que:

  • no hay ninguna razón en las escrituras, teología y tradición de la Iglesia para afirmar el sacerdocio exclusivo de hombres. Esto se encuentra evidenciado en una inmensa cantidad de estudios disponibles en: womenpriests.org;

  • durante siglos la jerarquía se ha dedicado a alimentar los prejuicios hacia las mujeres. Este prejuicio es la justificación oficial del Vaticano para excluir a las mujeres del sacerdocio y del diaconado. A través de Querida Amazonía Francisco busca reafirmarlo.

Papa Francisco, ya es hora que su Club de Toby reconozca que las mujeres no son “otras”, sino completamente humanas. La constante exclusión de las mujeres en el sacerdocio es una injusticia que perjudica a la Iglesia y le indica al mundo que está bien discriminar a las mujeres.

Tal como están las cosas seguimos teniendo a la Iglesia de un hombre. En donde a las mujeres sólo se les permite adorar, entregar bienes y servir. No olvidemos que nosotras, las mujeres, somos plenamente, completamente y verdaderamente imagen de Cristo.

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Papież Franciszek zawodzi w odniesieniu do kobiet w swojej apostolskiej adhortacji o Amazonii - 13 lutego 2020 r.

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Papież Franciszek zawodzi w odniesieniu do kobiet w swojej apostolskiej adhortacji o Amazonii

13 lutego 2020 r.
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Po przeczytaniu dokumentu postsynodalnego WOW dochodzi do wniosku, że papież Franciszek proponuje kontynuację rzymskokatolickiego męskiego spektaklu na plecach ukrzyżowanego Chrystusa odzwierciedlonego w twarzach kobiet. Odwracając się plecami od znaczącej okazji, aby dokonać przełomu dla kobiet, Franciszek wybrał utrwalenie niechlubnego elitarnego męskiego klubu, który, jak sam bezczelnie wypunktowuje w dokumencie, jest podtrzymywany przez drugorzędny status kobiet – które wykonują większość roboty, która nie jest doceniana.

Pomimo trosk o środowisko i globalną katastrofę klimatyczną Franciszek zupełnie nie łączy marginalizacji środowiska z marginalizacją kobiecości w świecie, a w szczególności jej marginalizacją w naszym własnym Kościele. Zdumiewające jest, że Franciszek podtrzymuje obronę wyłącznie męskiego kapłaństwa w oparciu o niemożliwą do obrony podstawie wyobrażenia relacji oblubieńczej, które stwierdza, że kapłan reprezentuje Oblubieńca, a Kościół Oblubienicę. Przy zastosowaniu ta praktyka dramatycznie podkreśla, w jaki sposób mężczyźni mogą spełniać wszystkie role poprzez płynną płciową panseksualność przyznaną kapłanom płci męskiej. Podczas gdy kapłan reprezentuje pana młodego, reprezentuje także pannę młodą. W tym ułomnym poglądzie kobiety są jedynie biernymi odbiorczyniami w źródle i szczycie naszej wiary. Kobiety są kategorycznie niepotrzebne do funkcjonowania Kościoła z wyjątkiem rodzenia dzieci i wspierania męskiego spektaklu. Ta teoria zdradza ślepą wiarę w koncepcję zwaną komplementarnością używaną przez Watykan do tego, aby twierdzić, że kobiety i mężczyźni są przeznaczeni do innych ról, ale co w rzeczywistości oznacza po prostu, że mężczyźni mogą robić wszystko, a kobiety mogą robić jedynie to, czego chcą od nich mężczyźni i co tym mężczyznom służy.

Jego odrzucenie dla idei kobiet w posługach nie jest niczym innym jak zdradą całej wspólnoty wierzących, która oczekuje w rozpaczliwej potrzebie kompetentnych kulturowo kapłanów. Bóg powołuje kobiety do kapłaństwa i diakonatu. Gdy przeprowadzi się świadomą analizę watykańskich wysiłków, aby uzasadnić wykluczenie kobiet z posługi sakramentalnej, staje się jasne, że:

  • w Piśmie Świętym, teologii czy tradycji nie da się znaleźć uzasadnienia dla wsparcia wyłącznie męskiego kapłaństwa. Zostało to udowodnionie w olbrzymiej ilości badań dostępnych na akademickiej stronie internetowej womenpriests.org;

  • przez wieki hierarchia karmiła wiernych uprzedzeniami wobec kobiet tak, jakby były one prawdą. Te uprzedzenia stanowią podstawą dla watykańskiego uzasadnienia wykluczania kobiet z kapłaństwa i diakonatu. Poprzez swoją postsynodalną adhortację apostolską o regionie Amazonii papież Franciszek nalega na ich podtrzymanie.

Papieżu Franciszku, już najwyższy czas, aby wasz klub chłopców rozpoznał, że kobiety nie są „innym”, ale są w pełni ludźmi. Kontynuowanie wykluczenia kobiet z kapłaństwa jest rażącą niesprawiedliwości, która szkodzi Kościołowi i daje światu sygnał, że jest akceptowalne traktowanie kobiet jako mniej ludzkie. W tym scenariuszu nie może być wielkiej sympatii dla przywództwa, które zmaga się z nieuniknionym pustoszeniem ławek i dekonsekracją coraz większej liczby katolickich świątyń.

W obecnej sytuacji Kościół pozostaje Kościołem mężczyzny, gdzie kobietom pozwala się czcić, dostarczać towary i usługi i nosić piętno czegoś mniejszego niż obrazy Chrystusa, którymi w pełni, całkowicie, prawdziwie i kompletnie jesteśmy.

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Women's Ordination Worldwide,założona w roku 1996, jest ekumeniczną siecią, której podstawową misją jest obecnie przyjęcie kobiet rzymskokatolickich do wszystkich święceń. WOW oparta jest na ewangelicznej zasadzie równości i w związku z tym sprzeciwia się jakiejkolwiej dyskryminacji. „ Nie ma już Żyda ani poganina, nie ma już niewolnika ani człowieka wolnego, nie ma już mężczyzny ani kobiety, wszyscy bowiem jesteście kimś jednym w Chrystusie Jezusie.” (Ga 3,28).

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Pope Francis Drops the Ball for Women in his Apostolic Exhortation on the Amazon -February 13, 2020

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February 13, 2020

For Immediate Release.
Press Contacts:

  • Kate McElwee (USA/Italy): +39 393 692 2100; kmcelwee@womensordination.org

  • Miriam Duignan (UK/Ireland): +44 7970 926910; miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com

  • Alicja Baranowska(Belgium & Poland): +32 488 67 60 20  alicja.baranowska@wp.pl

  • Therese Koturbash (Canada): +1 204 648 5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com


Reading the post-synodal document, WOW concludes that it is on the back of a crucified Christ imaged in the faces of women that Pope Francis proposes to continue running the Roman Catholic man show.  Turning his back on a significant opportunity to make a breakthrough for women, Francis has opted to perpetuate the shameful elitist man club that, as he so brazenly points out in the document, is held up by the second class status of women who do most of the work with none of the recognition.

Despite his concern for the environment and global climate catastrophe, Francis utterly fails to connect the marginalisation of the environment (a 'she') with the marginalisation of the feminine in the world and in particular, the 'she' who is marginalised in our own Church.  Astonishingly, Francis holds up defense of the all-male priesthood on the untenable foundation of spousal imagery that says priest stands in for groom and the Church as bride. In application, this practice dramatically underlines how men can fill all the roles through a gender fluid pansexuality granted for male priests.  While the male priest stands in for groom, he also and stands in for bride. Women in this broken view are but passive recipients in the source and summit of our faith. Women are categorically unnecessary for the function of the Church except for the production of children and to prop up the man show. This theory betrays a blind belief in a concept called complementarity used by the Vatican to claim that women and men are destined for different roles but which in reality just means men can do everything and women can only do what the men want them to and that serves them.

His rejection of women in ministerial service is nothing less than a betrayal of the entire faith community that waits desperately in need of culturally competent priests. God calls women to priesthood and to the diaconate. When an informed examination is made of the Vatican's efforts to justify excluding women from sacred ministry, it is clear that:

  • there is no reason in scripture, theology, or the tradition of the Church to support a male only priesthood. This is evidenced in the huge body of studies available on the academic website womenpriests.org;

  • for century after century, the hierarchy has fed prejudice against women to the faithful as though it were truth. This prejudice underpins the Vatican's official rationale for excluding women from priesthood and the diaconate. Through his Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Amazon region Pope Francis insists on perpetuating it. 

Pope Francis, it is long past time for your boys' club to recognise that women are not ‘other’ but are fully human. The continued exclusion of the woman from priesthood is flagrant injustice that harms the Church and signals to the world that it is ok to continue treating women as less than. In this scenario there can be little sympathy for a leadership who fumbles with the inevitable emptying of pews and deconsecration of growing numbers of Catholic churches.

As things stand now, the Church remains a man's Church where women are permitted to worship, to deliver goods and services and to be stamped with something less than the icons of Christ that we fully, wholly, truly and completely are.

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Press contacts:

  • Kate McElwee (USA/Italy): +39 393 692 2100; kmcelwee@womensordination.org

  • Miriam Duignan (UK/Ireland): +44 7970 926910; miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com

  • Alicja Baranowska(Belgium & Poland): +32 488 67 60 20  alicja.baranowska@wp.pl

  • Therese Koturbash (Canada): +1 204 648 5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com

Founded in 1996, Women's Ordination Worldwide(WOW) is an international network of groups whose current mission is to see Catholic women admitted to all ordained ministries in the Church. WOW is founded on the gospel principle of equality and therefore opposes any discrimination. 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no long male and female for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28).

Timeline of Work for Women’s Ordination in context of Women’s Ordination Worldwide

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WOW Statement on Appointment of Dr. Francesca Di Giovanni to Undersecretary for Multi-Lateral Affairs - January 17, 2020

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January 17, 2020: After twenty-seven years in the Secretariat of State, Pope Francis has promoted the very qualified Dr. Francesca Di Giovanni to the position of undersecretary for multilateral affairs. While Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) welcomes any step toward recognizing women’s equality in the Church, we insist this must only be the beginning of a long overdue corrective toward pulling the Vatican wagon into the 21st century.

The global Church, and particularly the curia, can only benefit from elevating women into positions of leadership, decision-making, and ordained ministry. However, we long for the day when the bar for celebration is raised. WOW suggest the radical idea that qualified persons are empowered in their work and ministries, regardless of gender.

For as long as the Vatican continues to exclude women from decision-making processes and ordained ministry, our Church continues to endorse the second-class status of women wherever they may be.

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Women’s Ordination Worldwide Media Contacts:

Kate McElwee (USA and Italy): +39 393 692 2100; kmcelwee@womensordination.org

Miriam Duignan (Ireland and UK): +44 7970 926910; miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com

Therese Koturbash (Canada): +1 204 648 5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com

Alicja Baranowska(Belgium & Poland): +32 488 67 60 20  alicja.baranowska@wp.pl

Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW):  Founded in 1996, WOW is an international network of groups whose current mission is the inclusion of Roman Catholic women in all ordained ministries. Founded on the principle of equality, WOW opposes all discrimination. 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus'. (Galatians 3:28)

Timeline of Work for Women’s Ordination

WOW RESPONDS ON WOMEN DEACONS DISCUSSED AT VATICAN SYNOD

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WOMEN'S ORDINATION WORLDWIDE

For Immediate Release

6 October 2015

For Immediate Release

Response On Women Deacons Discussed at Vatican Synod

 Contact :

Miriam Duignan: UK (+44) 7970 926910 m_duignan@hotmail.com

Kate McElwee: Italy (+39) 393-692-2100 kmcelwee@womensordination.org

Erin Saiz Hanna: USA (+1) 401-588-0457 ehanna@womensordination.org

 

Rome, Italy: Recent statements made by Canadian Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher of Gatineau, Quebec during the Vatican's Synod on the Family suggests an emergence of a discussion about including women in the ordained permanent diaconate. We applaud Archbishop Durocher for raising the suggestion to the exclusively male-voting body, and furthermore, for highlighting the relationship between the "degradation" of women in Church and society and violence against women around the world.

 

We call on our Church leaders to state clearly that "domination" over women is never acceptable, and until women are empowered as equals our Church perpetuates an inequality contrary to the Gospel. We pray that women's voices will not only be heard in forthcoming discussions, but given an equal vote.

 

Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) supports the restoration of the sacramentally ordained diaconate for women in its true form. Including women in the diaconate would not be something new. Instead the Church would be returning to its ancient roots when both women and men were deacons. While the women's diaconate continues in some parts of the Eastern Church even until today, we also now know that in the West, it was suppressed only on account of the prejudice against women.

 

Though restoration of an ordained women's diaconate would not alone be a satisfactory progression to including women in all realms of Church leadership, governance, and sacramental ministry - only ordination to the priesthood and episcopacy could begin to accomplish this - WOW supports restoration of the diaconate. It is long overdue. The so-called changing 'reasons' that have been used to try to justify the exclusion of women from ordained ministry rests quarely on the shoulders of prejudice alone.

 

The hierarchy deprives people of the pastors God calls for them and of the leadership gifts found in women who would serve the Church; upholding this discrimination, as though it were the will of God, is simply indefensible.

 

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WOW's position statement on restoration of the ordained women's diaconate is found here: http://womensordinationworldwide.org/wow-position-statement-on-the-diaconate/

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 Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW): Founded in 1996, WOW is an international network of groups whose current mission is the inclusion of women in all ordained ministries in the Roman Catholic Church. Founded on the principle of equality,WOW opposes all discrimination.'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is no longer slave or free,there is no longer male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus'. (Galatians 3:28) 

WOW currently includes representatives from Australia, Bangladesh,Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Malta, Poland, andthe United States. 

WOW's 3rd International Conference, 'Gender, Gospel, and Global Justice' was recently held in Philadelphia 18-20 September 2015. For more visit www.womensordinationworldwide.org 

WOW on the web:

March on Vatican to Deliver Petition with Father Roy Bourgeois - October 17, 2011

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March on Vatican to Deliver Petition with Father Roy Bourgeois

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 17, 2011

Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, 401.588.0457     

Fr. Roy Bourgeois and international delegation of women’s ordination leaders hold press conference; march on Vatican to deliver petition signed by 15,000 supporters

 

ROME, ITALY – Today, at 12:00 noon at Casa Del Cinema (Sala Kodak), Largo Marcello Mastroianni, representatives of Catholic organizations from around the world challenged the "grave scandal" of women’s ordination in the Roman Catholic Church, calling for the full and equal participation of women as deacons, priests, and bishops in a renewed church.

 

The remarks came following the Italian premiere of the award-winning documentary film, "Pink Smoke Over the Vatican," during a press conference held by Women’s Ordination Worldwide and other pro-ordination organizations. The activists traveled to Rome with Fr. Roy Bourgeois-an outspoken priest on the issue of women’s ordination-to hand-deliver a petition signed by 15,000 supporters on the issue. After the press conference, the groups staged a vigil in St. Peter’s Square.

 

Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a Roman Catholic priest, peace activist, US veteran, and founder of the human rights group, School of the Americas Watch, currently faces potential dismissal from his Maryknoll order for his public support of women’s ordination. "I have come to Rome with a basic question for our church leaders at the Vatican: how can we, as men, say that our call from God is authentic, but God’s call of women is not?"

 

"The scandal of demanding silence on the issue of women’s ordination reflects the absolute arrogance of the hierarchy and their tragic failure to accept women as equals in dignity and discipleship in the eyes of God," said Erin Hanna, executive director of the U.S. based Women’s Ordination Conference. Therese Koturbash, lawyer and National Coordinator of Canada’s Catholic Network for Women’s Equality continued: "Even though canon law invites our Church leaders to hear from the faithful, our leaders are silent when we try to engage."

 

Firm in his conscience, Fr. Roy Bourgeois has broken through the Vatican’s culture of fear to stand with the 63% of Catholics who support women’s ordination in the United States. "Increasingly priests around the world are rising up for women’s equality and ordination in the Catholic Church," stated Nicole Sotelo, from Call To Action (USA). "Just this summer in the United States alone, 200 priests signed the Clergy for Conscience letter supporting Fr. Roy and his right to speak his conscience. Together, we are creating a stronger, unified movement that carries high the scriptural mandate to preach the good news, without censure, but rather, firmly rooted in one’s conscience:  ‘there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus’" (Galatians 3:28).

 

"A holy shake-up is taking place here," said woman priest Janice Sevre-Duszynska, "that is challenging the institutional church’s sexism which treats women as second class members of their own church and contributes to violence toward women in society. Women priests remind us that women are equal images of God and therefore worthy to preside at liturgy and the sacred rituals of our church."

 

"We love our family, the Catholic Church," stated Miriam Duignan of Housetop’s womenpriests.org. "We feel obliged in conscience to make our carefully considered reasons known. In doing so, we fulfill our canon law duty to speak out, as our present Pope has encouraged us to do."  

 

In 1976, the Biblical Commission of Pope Paul VI determined there was no scriptural reason to prohibit women’s ordination. Despite the Commission’s finding, the Pope issued a statement later that year declaring the Vatican is not authorized to ordain women. "Christian history documents that women were deacons, priests and bishops in the early church. As a result, we know that Canon 1024, which states that only men can validly receive the sacrament of ordination, is blatantly sexist," concluded Hanna.

 

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Call To Action (CTA) educates, inspires and activates Catholics to act for justice and build inclusive communities through a lens of anti-racism and anti-oppression principles. An independent national organization of over 25,000 people and 53 local chapters, CTA believes that the Spirit of God is at work in the whole church, not just in its appointed leaders. For more information, visit www.cta-usa.org  Contact: Nicole Sotelo, Director of Communications,  nicole@cta-usa.org +1(773) 404-0004   x285

 

Catholic Network for Women’s Equality (CNWE), based in Canada, is a feminist-focused support and advocacy group for women and men in the Roman Catholic tradition, seeking to effect structural change in the institutional church that reflects the mutuality and integrity of a community of co-equal disciples, and to create life-giving alternatives to the present institutional structures. Therese Koturbash shaburtok@yahoo.ca 

                

Housetop’s www.womencanbepriests.org is the largest internet site providing information and documentation on the ordination of women. Though its focus is on the Catholic Church, its work benefits all Christian Churches. Offering thousands of documents in English and 24 other languages, the website covers decrees of councils and synods, the teaching of the Fathers of the Church, medieval theologians, recent papal decrees, contemporary articles and ongoing discussions on scripture, tradition and the teaching authority of the Church. Contact: Miriam Duignan, +44(0)1923 779 446, m_duignan@hotmail.com 

 

International Movement We are Church (IMWAC), Founded in Rome in 1996, is committed to the renewal of the Roman Catholic Church on the basis of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and the theological spirit developed from it. We are Church evolved from the Church Referendum in Austria in 1995 that was started after the paedophilia scandal around Vienna’s former Cardinal Groer. We are Church is represented in more than twenty countries on all continents and is networking world-wide with similar-minded reform groups. Contact: Nicole Sotelo, +1(773) 404-0004 x285 nicole@cta-usa.org 

 

Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP)/ Association of Roman Catholic Womanpriests, an international initiative within the Roman Catholic Church, advocates for a new model of priestly ministry united with the people with whom they serve.  The movement is an initiative within the Church that began with the ordination of seven women on the Danube River in 2002. Women bishops ordained in apostolic succession continue to carry on the work of ordaining women in the Roman Catholic Church. Contact Janice Sevre-Duszynska, rhythmsofthedance@msn.com or Ree Hudson, reehud@sbcglobal.net  

 

Women’s Ordination Conference, founded in 1975 and based in Washington, D.C., the is the oldest and largest national organization working for the ordination of women as priests, deacons, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable Roman Catholic Church. WOC also promotes new perspectives on ordination that call for less separation between the clergy and laity. Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, ehanna@womensordination.org +1(401) 588-0457    

 

Women’s Ordination Worldwide, founded in 1996, is an ecumenical network, whose primary mission at this time is the admission of Roman Catholic women to all ordained ministries. Contact: Erin Saiz Hanna, ehanna@womensordination.org +1(401) 588-0457; Therese Koturbash shaburtok@yahoo.ca

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WOW responds to the Amazon Synod conclusion that women’s ministry requires further study

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Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) is disappointed but not altogether shocked to learn that the Amazon Synod has concluded some married men will get the green light to be ordained as priests while women’s ministry will remain marginalised and requiring of yet further study.

We are told that opening up the ordination of married men in the Amazon region is a recognition of sacramental leadership that emerges from the community. But the church community also includes women and it is women who are currently present in the majority of ministerial roles and are already recognized as leaders by the people they serve.

Why must the Church re-open a commission on women deacons when the historical evidence of women deacons is abundant and the call for women deacons, even within in the Synod Hall, is overwhelmingly clear. Why must the Church pursue the ‘creation of new ministries for women’ as if to treat women as a sub-group requiring exceptional paths and distinct categories for their work without confronting the fact that women live both priestly and diaconal vocations already and should be ordained. This blatant disparity in the treatment of male and female vocations and ministry is a reinforcement of age old prejudice and is a blow to the majority of Catholics who dared to hope that this time might be different.

Adding married men to sacramental ministry in the Amazon will further push aside the women the Synod recognised are currently doing the work. This reinforces prejudice and signals the supplanting of women whose spiritual leadership will be sacrificed in the name of God but is for the sake of men.

Press contacts:

Kate McElwee: +39 393 692 2100; kmcelwee@womensordination.org

Miriam Duignan: +44 7970 926910; miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com

Therese Koturbash: +1 204 648 5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com

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WOW at the Amazon Synod to demand that women are finally recognized as equal church leaders

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Date & time: Tuesday, October 22nd at 15.00

Location: Prayer vigil @ Piazza Adriana (corner via Triboniano) followed by procession to St Peter’s

A group of international delegates from the Women’s Ordination Worldwide campaign group (WOW) are gathered in Rome to remind the hierarchy that women are already serving in priestly roles and to demand that they too are recognized as equal leaders of the Church.

Whilst the all-male voting delegates behind the Synod Gate discuss the priest shortage in the Amazon region, we will process to the closed gate to remind them that women are already leading sacramental ministry across Amazonia and around the world. Their vocations are recognized by the communities they serve. Why does the institutional church continue to discredit their ministry? As momentum to ordain married men increases, WOW cautions against adding yet more men to an already imbalanced church without addressing the injustice of excluding women.

WOW is encouraged by the new Pact of the Catacombs, signed by 40 Bishops from the Synod on October 20, demanding that the church: ‘Recognize the services and real diakonia of a great number of women who today direct communities’ and for ‘an adequate ministry of women leaders of the community’.  Without women, the Catholic Church would not exist in the Amazon and it is a matter of justice that they too are finally empowered as equals rather than being supplanted by local men whilst women continue to do the work of serving the communities.

WOW calls on Pope Francis to publicly acknowledge that a majority of attendees of the Synod support women deacons and witness their ministries daily in the Amazon region. We are calling on the church to open their eyes to the reality that women live both priestly and diaconal vocations already. WOW asks that the Synod take a first step towards equality and justice by restoring women deacons in the same rite as men. The church and the environment are in crisis. It is time to stop quibbling over technicalities and man-made medieval rules when women and sacraments are at stake.

We are joining the call for ecological justice which cannot be separated from the call for spiritual and sacramental equality. Our message to the Synod is:

 "Empowered women will save the Earth, Empowered women will save the Church"

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Press contacts:

Pat Brown: +44 7950048628; pat@patbrown-at.co.uk
Kate McElwee: +39 393 692 2100; kmcelwee@womensordination.org

Miriam Duignan: +44 7970 926910; miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com

Therese Koturbash: +1 204 648 5720; t.m.koturbash@gmail.com

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Le pape François et le diaconat pour les femmes

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Publié le 17 mai 2019 par WOW Women’s Ordination Worldwide

Réponse de la Women’s Ordination Worldwide [WOW] au retard du pape François
concernant le diaconat pour les femmes

La Women’s Ordination Worldwide [WOW] s’étonne que le pape François ait une fois de plus retardé le rétablissement du diaconat ordonné pour les femmes et ce, en raison de ce qu’il dit être un manque de clarté quant aux racines historiques du rite sacramentel.

Théologiquement et historiquement, il n’y a pas de raison valable pour une prêtrise exclusivement masculine ou un diaconat qui ne soit que masculin. Non seulement la diacre Phoebée est-elle évoquée dans l’Écriture majoritairement androcentrique, mais nous savons, par le travail de nombreux spécialistes et des manuscrits anciens qui ont conservé les rites d’ordination au diaconat, qu’ils étaient identiques pour les hommes et pour les femmes.

Non seulement l’histoire montre que, au coeur de la révélation, des femmes étaient là, des femmes étaient des leaders et des femmes étaient ordonnées, mais elle montre aussi que:

  • le ministère sacramentel pour les hommes s’est développé progressivement et a eu la porte ouverte à travers l’histoire de l’Église;

et inversement,

  • la misogynie et les préjugés non chrétiens ont fermé cette porte aux femmes de sorte que leurs responsabilités ont été diminuées et sont restées figées depuis.

Au lieu d’une évolution pour les femmes, comme cela fut le cas pour les hommes, le patriacat a choisi, comme on pouvait s’y attendre, de réprimer le développement naturel de la collaborationsacramentelle des femmes. La phobie des menstruations et la croyance erronée que les femmes étaient impures, inférieures, qu’elles étaient des hommes défectueux ne font pas partie de la révélation divine, mais des preuves montrent que c’est pour cela que les hommes ont finalement exclu les femmes du sacrement de l’ordre.

L’Église catholique est capable de développer et de transformer un grand nombre de ses enseignements et de ses pratiques, mais quand il s’agit des femmes, le Vatican trouve toutes les excuses pour gagner du temps. Ceux et celles qui se tournent les pouces quand l’égalité des femmes est en jeu nuisent à toute l’Église.

Les structures humaines défectueuses ne sont pas du Christ et ne sont pas des raisons acceptables de refuser à l’Église les prêtres et les diacres que Dieu appelle pour nous. Pourquoi les catholiques devraient-ils se voir refuser les pasteurs que Dieu appelle pour nous juste parce qu’elles arrivent dans un corps de femmes?

Nous sommes une Église vivante capable de favoriser la croissance des femmes tout autant que celle des hommes. Nous devons rouvrir les portes et accueillir les dons et les vocations des femmes comme on l’a fait si facilement pour les hommes.

Si la volonté du pape François est d’encourager la discussion, nous lui demandons de rendre publiques les résultats complets de la Commission pour l’étude du diaconat féminin afin que les gens puissent voir les raisons non valables qui font hésiter les hommes.

Le 11 mai 2019

Contacts :
Miriam Duignan: (UK & Ireland) +44 7970 926910 miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com
Therese Koturbash: Canada (+1) 204 648 5720 t.m.koturbash@gmail.com
Kate McElwee: (USA & Italy): +39 393 692 2100 kmcelwee@womensordination.org

Source :
http://womensordinationcampaign.org/press-releases/2019/5/11/womens-ordination-worldwide-responds-to-pope-francis-delay-of-women-deacons

Traduction : Pauline Jacob

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Women's Ordination Worldwide responds to Pope Francis' delay of women deacons

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For Immediate Release: 11 May 2019

WOW is astonished that Pope Francis has again delayed restoration of the ordained women’s diaconate, now on account of what he says is a lack of clarity as to historical roots of the sacramental rite.  

Theologically and historically, there is no valid reason for an exclusively male priesthood or a male only diaconate. Not only is woman deacon Phoebe commemorated in the predominantly androcentric scripture, we know from the work of many scholars and ancient manuscripts preserving the ordination rites to the diaconate, that they were identical for men and women. 

Not only does history show that, in the kernel of revelation, women were there, women led, and women were ordained, it also shows that:

  • Sacramental ministry for men developed progressively with an open door through Church history; and conversely,

  • Un-Christian misogyny and prejudice closed that door to women so that their roles were diminished and it has remained bolted shut ever since.

Instead of growth for women, as has been the acceptable standard for men, patriarchy has unsurprisingly opted to suppress the natural development of women’s sacramental partnership. Phobia against menstruation and the wrong belief that women were unclean, inferior, misbegotten men are not part of divine revelation yet evidence shows that this is why men eventually excluded women from the sacrament of ordination.

While the Catholic Church is able to develop and transform many of its teachings and practices, when it comes to women, the Vatican finds every excuse to stall. Those who twiddle thumbs when women’s equality is at stake harm the whole Church.

Faulty, man-made structures are not of Christ, and not acceptable reasons to refuse the Church the priests and deacons God calls for us.  Why should Catholics be denied the pastors God calls for us just because they happen to come packaged as women?

We are a living Church capable of growth for women just as much as men. We must re-open doors and welcome the gifts and vocations of women that have been so readily welcomed for men. 

If Pope Francis's will is to encourage discussion, we call on him to make public the complete findings of the Commission on Women Deacons so that the people can see the frivolous nonsense it is that causes these men to dither.

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Contact: Miriam Duignan: (UK & Ireland) +44 7970 926910 miriam.duignan@wijngaardsinstitute.com

Therese Koturbash: Canada (+1) 204 648 5720 t.m.koturbash@gmail.com

Kate McElwee: (USA & Italy): +39 393 692 2100 kmcelwee@womensordination.org

Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW): Founded in 1996, WOW is an international network of groups whose current mission is the inclusion of women in all ordained ministries in the Roman Catholic Church. Founded on the principle of equality, WOW opposes all discrimination. ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus’. (Galatians 3:28)

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Women’s Ordination Advocates Call for Votes for Catholic Women

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For Immediate Release 21 September 2018

Women’s Ordination Worldwide (WOW) acknowledges the Vatican took a significant step toward building a more synodal church by replacing the 1965 Synod of Bishops’ constitution, "Episcopalis Communio,” to officially allow non-ordained persons to participate as voting members. Yet, even when the letter of the law is changed to be more inclusive, the culture and practice of gender inequality maddingly persists.

First in 2015, and again at the upcoming Synod on Youth, Faith, and Vocational Discernment, religious brothers (non-ordained men) are named as voting members of the Synod. While theologically and canonically “equal” to their brothers, women religious are still denied a voting role. Why are women still excluded from voting? Why are the laity, including young people, sidelined and voiceless?

The reason? Bishop Fabio Fabene, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, offered this explanation: “For now, that is how it is."

“It is how it is,” is the logic of a frightened patriarchy. The practice of sacralized gender discrimination within the Catholic Church not only erodes its credibility, it sends a clear message to women: stay silent, stay invisible, stay in your place.

With new revelations of sexual abuse in the Church, we are facing the deep failures and sins of the current clerical system, a structure that risked the safety, faith, and trust of children and vulnerable people to protect itself. This kind of “boy’s club” clericalism cannot be trusted to lead a global discussion on Youth, Faith, and Vocational Discernment, where only 10% of participants (“observers,” “consultors,”) will be women.

We refuse to accept “it is how it is” in cases of sexual abuse, and we refuse to accept “it is how it is” in cases of gender discrimination. These crimes must be stopped. Catholic women must vote.

WOW stands with survivors of sexual abuse and harassment by clergy, and all those who are silenced, dismissed or rejected for sharing their stories, or daring to advocate for equality. We believe that only when women have equal opportunity to make decisions, respond to their vocations, and hold meaningful leadership positions, can our Church begin to heal from its sins.

In the current climate of increased oppression against women and other marginalized groups, Catholics need justice, action, and transparency. A closed-door session of bishops and clerics discussing young people is not the solution we need, rather, it is the root of the problem.

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Kate McElwee: (Italy & USA) +39 393 692 2100 / +1 607-725-1364 kmcelwee@womensordination.org

Alicja Baranowska: (Belgium & Poland)  +32 488 67 60 20  alicja.baranowska@wp.pl

Pat Brown: (UK) +44 7950048628 pat@patbrown-at.co.uk

Colm Holmes: (Ireland)  +353 86 606 3636 colmholmes2020@gmail.com

Kathleen Gibbons Schuck (USA) +1 215-872-1096 kschuck55@gmail.com

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