The hierarchy of the Catholic Church – the clerical caste – is increasingly justifying the exclusion of women from ministry claiming that ordination risks ‘clericalising women’. This new ‘bogeyman’ is gaining strength because Catholics everywhere are seeing through the Vatican’s bogus theology and know there is – and never was – a valid reason to banish one half of the Church from full and equal participation. In our Annual Gathering this year, we will be examining this new line of attack, what ‘clericalism’ means when applied to women, why it works to silence those supporting women priests and how to counter this argument.