If you live in, or are visiting the GTA at the end of April, this opportunity to see a terrific film is too good to miss!

The film documents the work of Sister Simone Campbell (Nuns on the Bus campaign for health care and member of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)), Sister Christine Schenk (Former Executive Director of Future Church and now columnist at National Catholic Reporter) and the late Sister Jean Hughes, a community worker counseling the formerly incarcerated on the West Side of Chicago.

There are 3 show times and they will all be at the TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre. The film is 80 minutes long with a Q and A after the movie.
Tuesday April 28 at 9:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre 1
Thursday April 30 at 4:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre 2
Friday May 1 at 3:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre 1

Get your tickets before they are all gone! You can order easily online by clicking here .

Many of us have followed the issue of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in the United States and the way they have been subjected to investigation and critique by the Vatican and ongoing patriarchal ‘supervision’.
Now is a time to show our solidarity for these courageous women!!

Let family and friends who live in the GTA know about this exciting world premiere! Here is all the info you need to get really excited!!

Website: www.radicalgracefilm.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/radicalgracefilm
Youtube: https://youtu.be/3FcOpGmbDc0

The following letter was sent by CNWE NWG on March 10 to the Pontifical Council for Culture:

Dear Cardinal Ravasi and members of the Pontifical Council for Culture,

We wish to acknowledge the removal of ‘Venus Restored’ by Man Ray from the website version of the Outline Document for the “Women’s Cultures” plenary session. We are hopeful that this action is in response to the numerous women and men around the world who found the image inappropriate and offensive.

We remain ever hopeful that the conversations generated by the Plenary Session and especially by the ‘Voices of Faith’ gathering at the Vatican this past weekend will be catalysts for change in our Church. We share ‘Voices of Faith’ participant Dr. Astrid Gajiwala’s dream for our Church: “I dream of a church where men and women would participate equally in all decision-making so that they both would contribute to the policies, the structures, the teaching, and the practice of the church. And both would engage in ministry.”

Sincerely,

Cathy Holtmann, Mary Ellen Chown, Shirley Kindred, Denise Wiggins, Maire Goss and Anna Rowley
National Work Group
Catholic Network for Women’s Equality (CNWE), Canada
www.cnwe.org