Women's Ordination Conference

Women's Ordination Conference A voice for women's equality in the Roman Catholic Church

💅🏼 it just comes naturally, you know?
08/07/2026

💅🏼 it just comes naturally, you know?

Just like Pope Leo, we're taking a summer break! See you in August!
07/20/2026

Just like Pope Leo, we're taking a summer break! See you in August!

Today is the feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first canonized Native American saint. She was born in Ossernenon i...
07/14/2026

Today is the feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first canonized Native American saint. She was born in Ossernenon in what is now upstate New York in 1656, the daughter of a Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) chief and an Algonquin Catholic mother. Her Mohawk given name, Tekakwitha, means "she who bumps into things," a reference to damage done to her eyesight due to smallpox. When she was baptised in 1676, she was given the name Kateri, a Mohawk translation of the name Catherine.

We honor the nuance of her story and the ways it intersects with the systems of colonialism that harmed so many Native peoples. The website for the St. Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine and Historic Site (katerishrine.org) puts it well:

"Due to her unique cultural position, Kateri has been a figure of debate: there are conflicting accounts of how much hardship she faced within her community due to her conversion, with later Catholic authors extrapolating from the Jesuit records. Mohawk oral history describes much less contemporary persecution than the Catholic biographies written after her death and a greater respect for the skills she developed within the community, but some traditional Mohawks still take issue with her baptism into Catholicism or with the way Mohawk culture is represented through the lens of her conversion."

In 2020, Crux Now profiled the Pawnee Seed Reservation Project in Oklahoma, and the Keeper of the Seeds Dawn Echo-Hawk, who says she believes that St. Kateri interceded to make sure the project was a success. She said: "“I love Kateri, who went through so much, whose faith was so strong that it carried her through difficult times. I think she’s a gentle reminder of a people who have been invisible, and yet have so much to offer.”

(Source: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2020/03/saint-kateri-tekakwitha-inspiration-for-effort-to-save-pawnee-traditional-corn)

Art credit: Lisa E. Brown

Happy 250+ years of women and nonbinary people leading the movements to make a more just country and world.
07/04/2026

Happy 250+ years of women and nonbinary people leading the movements to make a more just country and world.

💜🎉🎉 THANK YOU 💜🎉🎉 - you have made our Day of Impact true to its name and SURPASSED our goal ⚽ of 24 new monthly donors i...
07/01/2026

💜🎉🎉 THANK YOU 💜🎉🎉 - you have made our Day of Impact true to its name and SURPASSED our goal ⚽ of 24 new monthly donors in 24 hours!

We do not take this lightly. We know each person who donates is not just a number, but an individual rich with friends, children, or family members who will benefit from their decision to carry WOC’s message out into the world.

Your generosity means the world to us! Together, we can continue our uncompromising work for gender equity in the church and in the world.

Whoa...we're halfway there! 🎶Thanks to your generosity, we have reached 12 new monthly donors on our Day of Impact! 💜 He...
06/30/2026

Whoa...we're halfway there! 🎶

Thanks to your generosity, we have reached 12 new monthly donors on our Day of Impact! 💜 Help us reach our goal of 24 in 24 hours -- we'll make it, we swear 🎶😎💜

Become a monthly donor here: https://bit.ly/WOC24in24

This Day of Impact, we’re saying: more confetti, less Canon 1024! Why? Our celebration coincided with the anniversary ...
06/30/2026

This Day of Impact, we’re saying: more confetti, less Canon 1024!

Why? Our celebration coincided with the anniversary of Pope John Paul II releasing Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, which we joyfully ripped into confetti at our opening ritual.

We refuse to be bound Ordinatio Sacerdotalis or by canon 1024 (which says that women cannot be validly ordained as priests), and in that spirit we’re asking for 24 new monthly donors at $10.24 per month within 24 hours. We've got 8 donors so far - 1/3 of the way there!

Help us go beyond 50 years—and beyond canon 1024—during our 2026 Day of Impact. Become a monthly donor here: https://bit.ly/WOC24in24

Today is our Day of Impact! 💪💜 We’re seeking 24 new monthly donors in 24 hours, each giving $10.24 or more.Why $10.24 (o...
06/30/2026

Today is our Day of Impact! 💪💜 We’re seeking 24 new monthly donors in 24 hours, each giving $10.24 or more.

Why $10.24 (or more)? Despite growing openness to conversations about women’s leadership in the church, Canon 1024 — which states that only a baptized male receives sacred ordination validly — still stands. But we know that no canon can stop a call, and an unjust law is no law at all.

In this big anniversary year, your monthly gift is a steady act of hope for WOC’s next chapter. If a monthly donation isn’t possible, any one-time gift made today will also count toward our Day of Impact total.

Please consider being one of our 24 in 24 today~

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Every June, we hold our "Day of Impact," when we invite our grassroots community to show its strength with an audacious ...
06/25/2026

Every June, we hold our "Day of Impact," when we invite our grassroots community to show its strength with an audacious and deeply hopeful act of support. And you always show up!! 💪 💜

This year, on June 30, we are seeking 24 new monthly donors in 24 hours to make a commitment of just $10.24 a month.

Why $10.24 (or more)? Despite growing openness to conversations about women’s leadership in the church, Canon 1024—which states that only a baptized male receives sacred ordination validly—still stands.

But we know that no canon can stop a call, and an unjust law is no law at all.

In such a big anniversary year, we know we have asked our community to show up for WOC in big ways. For this Day of Impact, we ask if you might join us in a small, steady way through a monthly donation. Your gift is not just an investment in our future, but a deep prayer of hope for WOC’s next chapter.

Stay tuned for June 30 and make your monthly gift count towards our Day of Impact! If a monthly donation is not feasible for you right now, any one-time gift made that day will also be counted in our Day of Impact total.

Please consider being one of our 24 in 24!

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