Women's Ordination Conference

05/08/2026

Releasing pink smoke over the Vatican during the conclave that elected Pope Leo - hard to believe this was a year ago!

05/07/2026

See you in Detroit?

woc50.org/register

05/06/2026

TWO MORE DAYS to register for WOC50 — register by Friday, May 8! Get ready to mix it up with an amazing community of activists, scholars, woman priests, and faithful, feisty feminists.🔥 Register at woc50.org/register!

( And yes, those *are* custom stir sticks for the feminist mocktails and cocktails at WOC50. Cheers to 50 years! 🥂)

04/29/2026

Today we celebrate the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church, mystic, church reformer, truth-teller, and queen of telling medieval clerics what's what. 🔥 May her directness and courage continue to inspire us, especially as we urge the Pope and the Vatican to "Be Not Afraid" and !

[Art credit: Paisley Honey]

04/27/2026

Some highlights from Vocations Sunday in the UK and outside the Vatican embassy in DC, and some quotes from comments signers have left on our petition to Pope Francis to "Be Not Afraid" and take courageous action to welcome women as equals.

We're still accepting signatures -- add your name here: https://c.org/RGBHK###Hf

04/27/2026

Thank you, that means a lot.

04/27/2026

"But what will be remarkable about this visit is the optics: the sight of Mullally, the first female archbishop of Canterbury, standing shoulder to shoulder and kneeling in prayer with the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, which still maintains a male-only priesthood."

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/canterbury-archbishop-visit-pope-milestone-churches-split-women-clergy

The first female archbishop of Canterbury will stand shoulder to shoulder and kneel in prayer with the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, which still maintains a male-only priesthood.

04/26/2026

Our message to Pope Leo this Vocations Sunday: Be Not Afraid.

04/22/2026

is officially ONE MONTH AWAY! 🎉 There's still time to register and join us in Detroit from May 22-24 to be surrounded by seasoned activists, first-timers, theologians, women priests, and supporters of the movement for women's ordination!

Register at woc50.org/register today. We can't wait to celebrate with you!

04/21/2026

Sign and share our open letter to Pope Leo for Vocations Sunday!

Vocations Sunday, April 26, is the day the institutional church prays for an increase in vocations and WE call upon the church to recognize that women have sincere vocations to ordained ministry.

Given our Vocations Sunday theme of "Be Not Afraid," we drafted a letter to Pope Leo urging him to show courage and move forward to ordain women. We cited as our example St. Catherine of Siena, who courageously confronted popes and whose feast day, April 29, falls just days after Vocations Sunday.

Our open letter is a petition that we invite you to sign and share widely!

We know that at the grassroots level, all around the world, the people of God in the Catholic church long to see women in leadership and in ordained ministry.

St. Catherine of Siena famously said: "We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues—I see the world is rotten because of silence." So - add your name to let the Vatican know that you are one of the thousands (and more) crying out for equality among all genders in the Catholic church!

Dear Pope Leo: Women Are Called to Be Priests