Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) is a global network of organisations whose mission is the admission of Roman Catholic women to all ordained ministries.
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The Vatican's awkward woman priest precedent: In 1970, Ludmila Javorová was secretly ordained by Bishop Davídek and ministered to 'underground' catholics for years. When the threat of communist persecution was over, her priesthood was declared 'invalid'
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The question of women's ordination @The_Tablet festival
'“As a Church we do not practice what we preach. Women do the bulk of the church’s work and bear most of the suffering of the world, yet they are told they cannot represent Christ at the altar.”
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Speaking at @The_Tablet Festival about why so many #Catholics are questioning the church’s teaching on truth and justice. “How can we claim a living faith if our beliefs about women are based on the teachings of medieval men?”
#OrdainWomen
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#MagnificaHumanitas takes a strong stand against the discrimination embedded within #AI.
WOW is struck by the glaring hypocrisy of the Vatican lecturing others about creating systems that deem others inferior and are designed to exclude them
#OrdainWomen
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Also from Magnifica Humanitas. A little ironic that the Pope condemns systems that “treat some lives as less worthy, or excludes them without the possibility of appeal” when he presides over an institution that bars women from ordained leadership.
After 58 years of priesthood under institutional pressure, Fr McCarthy remains committed that the time has come for the Catholic Church to admit women to the priesthood:
"If you look at the Acts of the Apostles, Chloe was a priest and the Eucharist was led by women as well''
Soline Humbert felt called to ordination. This Irish priest paid a price for supporting her.
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BISHOPS ALSO WANTED WOMEN TO BE ORDAINED - POPE FRANCIS & 'OTHERS' BLOCKED IT:
“We wanted women to also have access to Holy Orders. Most small parishes are already led by women.” Such changes fall within the Church’s disciplinary competence rather than its unchangeable doctrine.
The retired Amazonian bishop Erwin Kräutler has claimed that “pressure” prevented Pope Francis from permitting the ordination of married men after the 2019 Synod on the Amazon.
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WOW's statement in @The_Tablet
'We join with Christians everywhere in delighting at this watershed moment after centuries of discrimination against women whose vocations to leadership were denied to placate those who prioritised patriarchal hierarchy over the teachings of Jesus'
Catholic women’s ordination campaigners welcome enthronement of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury. Honoured to be going to this tomorrow. Looking ahead in report @The_Tablet, commenting @TimesRadio tmrw! thetablet.co.uk/news/catholi…
Catholic campaigners congratulate @ArchbishopSarah
'We recognise the bravery of @WATCH_ACT members who campaign tirelessly to ensure that the glory of God can be fully represented by women also being chosen by their communities as spiritual leaders.'
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What, like when women were banned from voting, medicine, law etc? Those were 'instances' of not being able to participate because of sex (ism). And they were based on the same logic as the ban on ordination.
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By this logic - if men should have access to the priesthood because they will not experience pregnancy, every Catholic nun must also qualify for ordination?
''The Church’s vision of social justice pales into insignificance in the face of its guarantee to misogynists everywhere that it respects their desire to control women’s bodies on everything from contraception and abortion to ordination''
I've published two related Substack posts - on violence against women and the all-male Catholic hierarchy. @OrdainWomen. open.substack.com/pub/agende…
In saying: 'it would be an arrogance of the West to say that our ideas of progress are the unique ones' Timothy implies that he, as a Westerner, supports women priests (does he?) and seems to scapegoat African clerics as if they alone oppose women's ordination
Ahead of this week’s extraordinary consistory at the Vatican, I went to Oxford to interview ‘don’t call me Cardinal’ Timothy Radcliffe: on women’s ordination, ministering to those with HIV, what the Pope is like + whether he voted for himself at conclave
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'The consequences of an all-male celibate leadership's control over teaching and healthcare without a single women influencing decision making are catastrophic. This is the most urgent issue that the world should be holding the #Vatican to account for.
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In December 2025, the #Vatican announced its stance on women deacons, under the pretense it was a recent development - this was a charade
The Commission had already voted against the possibility of allowing the sacramental ordination of women as deacons in July 2022!
#Vatican lies exposed by @WijngaardsR
Including the question:
'Did this story of subterfuge come about because #PopeFrancis did not want the sexism behind the women deacon decision to ruin the spirit of synodality?'
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'We are in the middle of a Synodal Process based on the notion of giving a voice to all the baptised. That voice has been clear and strong on its view of the need for equality for women in all aspects of #Catholic Church ministry... not just as deacons, but also as priests.'
My reaction to the Vatican statement on women and diaconate tonyflannery.com/responding-…