Your Eminence Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez,
Your Grace Archbishop Charles Scicluna,
Members of the workgroup,
Because this matter has been entrusted to you by Pope Francis, we now direct to you our urgent request to restore the sacramental ordination of women to the diaconate.
Opposition to the ordination of women springs from age-old mainly secular prejudices against women. They dominated Church thinking throughout its history, from Jewish, Greek, Roman, medieval and more recent sources.
To help your workgroup overcome this injustice, we are sending to each of you a copy of the recent publication Why Christ Rejects All Church Prejudice Against Women by John Wijngaards. It meticulously documents all past and present prejudices and refutes them from Scripture. More information on www.equalityforwomen.org.
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53 organizations with a combined membership of more than 200 000 members support out petition.
- ASSOCIACIóN DE SACERDOTES CATóLICAS ROMANAS – Colombia
- AUSTRALASIAN CATHOLIC COALITION FOR CHURCH REFORM (ACCCR) –
- CATHOLIC CHURCH REFORM INT’L – International
- CATHOLICS FOR CHOICE – United States
- CATHOLIC NETWORK FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY (CNWE) – Canada
- CATHOLICS SPEAK OUT – Australia
- CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PHILIPPINES (DaKaTeo) – Philippines
- CATHOLIC WOMEN’S ORDINATION (CWO) – Great Britain
- COMUNIDAD DE VIDA CRISTIANA EN VALPARAISO – Chile
- CORPUS – United States
- CORRIENTE SOMOS IGLESIA – Spain
- CWC LATINOAMéRICA, EL CARIBE y ESPAñA –
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- DONNE PER LA CHIESA – Italy
- ECLESALIA INFORMATIVO – Spain
- ECCLESIA OF WOMEN IN ASIA –
- ERIC MICHEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL – United States
- FEMMES ET HOMMES ÉGALITÉ, DROITS ET LIBERTÉS DANS LES ÉGLISES ET LA SOCIÉTÉ (FHEDLES) – France
- FEMMES ET MINISTèRES – Canada
- GREEN MADCAPS – India
- GRUPO CRISTIANO DE REFLEXIÓN- ACCIÓN BAHÍA DE CÁDIZ – Spain
- INDIAN WOMEN THEOLOGIANS – India
- INSTITUTO ORCO HUASI. INVESTIGACIONES INTERCULTURALES – Argentina
- L’AUTRE PAROLE – Canada
- LA PLACE DES FEMMES DANS L’EGLISE (CEPFE) – France
- MARIA 2.0 Rottenburg-Stuttgart – Germany
- MOVEMENT FOR OPTIONAL CLERICAL CELIBACY (MOCEOP) – Spain
- MUJERES DE LA IGLESIA DE BURGOS POR LA IGUALDAD – Spain
- MUJERES Y TEOLOGIA DE SEVILLA – Spain
- NEW WAYS MINISTRY – United States
- NOI SIAMO CHIESA – Italy
- NÓS SOMOS IGREJA – Portugal
- PRO CONCILIO E.V./KONZIL VON UNTEN – Germany
- REDES CRISTIANAS – Spain
- RESEAUX DU PARVIS – France
- ROMAN CATHOLIC WOMEN PRIESTS (RCWP) – International
- ROOT & BRANCH SYNOD – International
- RU’HA COMMUNITY RCWP (South Africa)- South Africa
- SAINT JOAN’S INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE – International
- SCHWEIZERISCHER KATHOLISCHER FRAUENBUND – Switzerland
- SORORITA DI SANTA MARIA NASCENTE DI MILANO – Italy
- SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CATHOLICS FOR AN EVOLVING CHURCH (SACEC) –
- SPIRIT UNBOUNDED – International
- THE ORDINARY OFFICE – Great Britain
- TRAS LAS HUELLAS DE SOPHIA – Mexico
- WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND – Ireland
- VROUWEN IN ZICHT – Belgium
- WIJNGAARDS INSTITUTE FOR CATHOLIC RESEARCH – International
- WIR SIND KIRCHE DEUTSCHLAND – Germany
- WIR SIND KIRCHE OESTERREICH – Austria
- WOMEN AND THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH (WATAC) – Australia
- WOMEN’S ORDINATION CONFERENCE (WOC) – United States
- WOMEN’S ORDINATION WORLDWIDE (WOW) – International
- WORLD FORUM ON THEOLOGY AND LIBERATION – International
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