WOW

Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) is a global network of organisations whose mission is the admission of Roman Catholic women to all ordained ministries.

[WOW @CampaignWOW]

#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
https://t.co/nYiZcyknoj

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Paragraph 57 of Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas, almost goes as far as to say women should be treated equally but the phrase used instead is: 'equal in dignity'. For as long as women are barred from equal ministry, the Catholic Church cannot break the spell of sexism it is under

[Rev. Dr. Boudyka @bdk1521]

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.

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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''

[Sarah R Mac Donald @SarahRMacDonald]

Soline Humbert felt called to ordination. This Irish priest paid a price for supporting her.
https://t.co/LD2njYALQy via @NCRonline @CampaignWOW @HolmesColm, @GerryO_Connor, @dearmisskate, @OrdainWomen, @MiriamTDuignan, @luca_badini #priesthood @ACPInIreland #womenpriests

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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 Catholic Herald @CatholicHerald]

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.

🔗 https://t.co/1l9H63Jz4e

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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'

[Ruth Gledhill @RuthieGledhill]

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! https://t.co/GhXPdlajjK

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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.'
https://t.co/xasLWFJAaB

[Miriam Duignan @MiriamTDuignan]

@JLLiedl 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.

[Miriam Duignan @MiriamTDuignan]

@JLLiedl 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?

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@PetriOP 'Revealed doctrine' means medieval men decided to ban women from the altar in 1050. Scripture - the true tradition - teaches us that women were Apostles and leaders of the early Church as Jesus wanted them to be.

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Men cannot give birth and so only they can be priests as compensation for this injustice - did we get that right? 😜

[Jonathan Liedl @JLLiedl]

I hope Cardinal Hollerich will also work to redress the fact that half of the the people of God suffer because they have no access to getting to experience pregnancy.

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@WelchJacinta @BDevlin1 Well said Jacinta - such a special service for an amazing man 💙

[Michele Madigan Somerville @NYpoet]

Where are the women?

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''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''

[Tina Beattie @TinaBeattie]

I've published two related Substack posts - on violence against women and the all-male Catholic hierarchy. @OrdainWomen. https://t.co/lYFM61y3z2

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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

[Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots]

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
https://t.co/n7f1EZJu8O

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@TinaBeattie @RonniNicole1 @Sorelle_Arduino Magnificent!

[Tina Beattie @TinaBeattie]

@RonniNicole1 @Sorelle_Arduino Mary replies.

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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.
https://t.co/aGZg6HW3HR

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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!

[Miriam Duignan @MiriamTDuignan]

#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?'

https://t.co/NH9JPgVcJ6

[Miriam Duignan @MiriamTDuignan]

'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.'