Catholic Women's Ordination
Challenging Institutional Misogyny in the Roman Catholic Church
Welcome to Catholic Women’s Ordination
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CWO began in March 1993 as a national (UK) group of women and men who care deeply about the Roman Catholic Church. We want to be a part of building a church community that truly lives the justice demanded by Jesus; a justice which demands that women be equal with men.
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Women equal with men means not only that women have the opportunity to fulfil their own vocation, but also that the Church community benefits from their experience and their strengths in the ministerial priesthood.
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We are a forum to examine, challenge and develop the current understanding of priesthood. We aim to achieve the ordination of women to a renewed priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
Vocation Sunday 11 May
This is a really important day of witness for our movement. Vocation Sunday is when those called can feel most excluded. Please let us know if you would like to take part in a Vocation Sunday vigil, either in your own parish or at Southwark in London. We will provide materials nearer the date which you can use or adapt as you like.
Email cwoenews@gmail.com for more information
The CWO Prayer
Moved by a compulsion of the Holy Spirit,
we cannot remain ignorant of this injustice in our midst.
We long for all humanity to be acknowledged as equal,
particularly among your community of the church,
so we pray grieving for the lost gifts of so many women.
We ask you, God of all peoples,
to bring insight and humility
to all those in positions of dominance,
and an understanding that the ascended Lord called us all to act
doing Christ's work here and now.
We ask this of you, God our Creator,
Jesus our Redeemer, Spirit our Sustainer
