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.
Women, make your presence in the Church known by your absence
Catholic Women Strike is a global campaign aimed at seeking to "remove all barriers to ministry and governance, including Holy Orders, for women and people of all genders, through withholding women’s time, labour, and resources from the Catholic Church for the duration of Lent 2025". CWS is a project of Women's Ordination Conference (WOC).
Check out the website, There is a tool kit with loads of ideas which is also available in Spanish, German, and Italian
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
