Synod on Synodality (Page 2)
Posted on October 14, 2023
Here is a two minute video, sent out by the U.S. based Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC). The “Women’s Walk” they organized (WOC’s Walk as it were!) was one of their actions in which the “CNWE Nine” participated. To get a sense of the Women’s Walk on the ground, please enjoy this gorgeous video…
Posted on October 13, 2023 by Mary Ellen Chown
As I reflect on our last day in Rome, I will remember it as a day of powerful public witness, prayerful remembrance, and deep gratitude. We gathered for the “Walk with Women” in the courtyard of our residence in the early afternoon sun: each of us in purple, symbolic of women’s equality in the Church.
Posted on October 12, 2023
Michelle LaRose, who attended the October 4 prayer service at the grave of Cardinal Flahiff in Winnipeg, in solidarity with the CNWE delegation in Rome, was asked for comment by French language CBC Radio Canada. Listen to her commentson the Radio Canada website (in French).
Posted on October 9, 2023 by Rev Roberta Fuller
We, CNWE, came for the WOC Vigil for gender equity & we went to the Women’s March for Women’s Rights, – for human rights in our own Roman Catholic Church, yet all this time, we have been in the midst of Rome, the eternal city.
Posted on October 8, 2023 by Virginia Lafond
When I quickly wrote my ‘Roman Elizabeth Story’ on Saturday morning, I very well knew it needed editing. I did edit it as best I could in the 45 minutes that I had at the airport, before I boarded my flight.
Posted on October 8, 2023
From Global News, read the full article and watch the video featuring CNWE member Jeanie McKibbon.
Posted on October 7, 2023 by Virginia Lafond
Glory be! I find I have an hour to fill you in on the extraordinary 1 and 1/2 hour session that most of the CNWE group in Rome were enriched by on Thursday afternoon (Oct 5). In short, it was an encounter via Zoom with Sister Elizabeth Davies, one of the Canadians appointed by Pope Francis to be a delegate during the Synod process.
Posted on October 7, 2023
From CTV News: CNWE members in Rome have had their “last supper” together, and are beginning to make their soon or later returns to Canada. Here is a link to a CTV story, that quotes Mary Ellen Chown and Louise Dowhan.
Posted on October 7, 2023
A group of women, including two from Calgary, are in Rome pushing for equality in the Catholic church. One of those women is CNWE member Jeanie McKibbon. In this 9 minute segment, Jeanie gives an informative and inspiring account of her experience.
Posted on October 6, 2023
From Rome: A wonderful article by CBC Rome Correspondent Megan Williams with comments from Susan Roll and Mary Ellen Chown among other international reform-minded leaders. Thanks to the entire Rome group for your presence at this historic moment, and your voices!
Posted on October 5, 2023
Louise Dowhan talks to Marcy Markusa about why she thinks women should hold positions like priests and what that change might bring within the Church.
Posted on October 5, 2023 by Susan K. Roll
At noon today, several of us from the CNWE contingent were on the rooftop terrace of our residence, while bells rang across the cityscape beneath us. And it felt like I was hovering over Rome, carried aloft on a current of breathtaking change.
Posted on October 4, 2023
Yesterday, October 3, CNWE’s delegation to Rome and other supporters of women’s ordination from around the world were welcomed into the historic Basilica of St. Praxedes in Rome, for a vigil to pray for women’s voices to carry throughout the synod process.
Posted on October 4, 2023
CNWE member Mary Ellen Chown is featured on the October 4 episode of As It Happens on CBC Radio.
Posted on October 4, 2023 by Mary-Ellen Morgenstern
Our spot in Rome is extraordinary. While the rooms are simple but spacious and lovely, we have an exquisite view from our rooftop terrace. We all gathered together last night for the first time to share a simple meal of bread, wine, olives, cheese and grapes.
Posted on October 3, 2023
Mary Ellen Chown did an interview today with Ottawa Morning. Even while jet-lagged, Mary Ellen speaks beautifully of her hopes for the Synod, and her confidence in the untamed, unpredictable Spirit of God.
Posted on October 3, 2023
This is an interview which Anthony Germain conducted with Newfoundland Sister of Mercy Elizabeth Davis, on September 26, before she headed to Rome for the Synod. Elizabeth is an official appointed delegate to the Synod.
Posted on October 2, 2023 by Jeanie McKibbon & Nancy Quan
We have arrived in Rome on the eve of the synod. Our Canadian CNWE contingent is here and the mood amongst our group is hopeful and determined. We are struck by the resolve of these women and men who love their faith but have been hurt by their Church.
Posted on October 1, 2023 by Jeannie McKibbon & Nancy Quan
As we come off of a 10 day relaxing but adventure filled tour of southern Italy along the Adriatic Sea, we begin to turn our thoughts and our intentions toward our week in Rome. Our faithful car we dubbed Rosa (because of all the rose we consumed on our tour) returned and we board our train into Rome with some trepidation but mostly excitement and anticipation.
Posted on October 1, 2023
Louise Dowhan is one of nine Canadians from the Catholic Network for Women’s Equality who are in Rome for an important synod at the Vatican to call for the full and equal participation of women in ministry and leadership in the Catholic Church. (source: CBC Listen)
Posted on September 29, 2023
Greetings friends. We invite you to join us at noon on October 4th, the opening day of the Synod in Rome, to pray and picnic together. We gather in Winnipeg, in solidarity with those in Rome, and hope/pray that this Synod may be a truly historic and transformative experience of God’s gracious presence and action among us.
Posted on September 27, 2023
From the Winnipeg Free Press: Winnipegger Louise Dowhan is going to Rome to deliver a message — that it’s time for the Roman Catholic Church to let women be priests and deacons.
Posted on September 12, 2023
A delegation of ten Catholic Canadians, members of the Catholic Network for Women’s Equality (CNWE) will be travelling to Rome October 1-6, 2023 to call for the full and equal participation of women in ministry and leadership in the Catholic Church. We will join reform-minded Catholics from around the world as the Vatican Synod on Synodality Assembly begins.
Posted on April 27, 2023
Pope Francis has expressed a desire that half of the delegates proposed by bishops’ conferences be women. This is the first time that a Vatican Synod will be comprised of 21% non-bishop voting participants and the first time in the history of the Catholic Church that women and young people will have a vote at a Vatican Synod.
Posted on March 22, 2023
The Catholic Network for Women’s Equality (CNWE) in Canada welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Working Document for the Continental Stage of the Synod (DCS). Reflecting on the DCS, as well as diocesan reports from around the world, it is evident that the Spirit is calling the church to ‘enlarge the space of our tent’.
Posted on November 3, 2022
Read CNWE’s Summary Report to the Vatican Synod on Synodality. It is based on conversations that CNWE members engaged in during the the spring 2022. It was gratefully received by the Vatican Synod Office and the office of Synod Undersecretary Sr. Nathalie Becquart.
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Vatican march of women calling for ordination to the priesthood.