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While the
#Vatican
may attempt to keep women in the shadows, the Good News of equality shines forth
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"The Church cannot be afraid to examine customs when they no longer communicate the Gospel."
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We are so sorry to learn that pioneering Catholic feminist theologian &
@OrdainWomen
Advisory Board member, Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether, died earlier today. Her legacy as a theologian and justice-seeker will shine on and on. May she rest in peace and power.
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Good morning and happy feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostles, to the
@USCCB
- looks like there are some "signs of the times" to pay attention to!
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'An official from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said to me, "Women can't image Christ." And I said, "Watch me."' - Phyllis Zagano at the CTU diaconate conversation 🔥
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Today, women have voted in the halls of the Vatican for the first time. There is no turning back.
#LetHerVoiceCarry
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hello we've been trying to reach you about extending the priesthood to women
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Happy feast of
#StThereseofLisieux
, matron saint of women's ordination! At a young age, she wrote in her diary: "I feel in me the vocation of priest."
To celebrate, we're excited to share this beautiful new icon from Daniela Jimenez (andhersaints on IG).
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It's funny on the day we remember the woman Jesus sent forth to proclaim the Resurrection to see all the folks insisting that Jesus didn't ordain MM. Remember, Jesus didn't ordain ANYONE.
But he DID commission
#MaryMagdalene
to announce the Gospel. To the men who hid.
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LGBTQ+ relationships are sacred and blessed by God, and a statement from the Vatican cannot change that simple, profound, beautiful reality. We stand with our LGBTQ+ siblings, shoulder to shoulder, as we transform our Church by choosing love.
The Catholic faithful have already expressed their support of same-sex couples, and they will continue to do so. This decision changes nothing other than motivating more Catholics to support same-gender couples. 11/
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Maybe the "scandal" is that a so-called shepherd of the church is modeling narrow-mindedness, division, and condemnation rather than the radically inclusive love with which Jesus invited everyone to the table.
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#VotesForCatholicWomen
glows on the closed doors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
#Vatican
#SinodoAmazonico
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"We must stop acting as if women were a marginal group in the Church.
They are not on the periphery of the Church, they are in the center. And if we do not give a voice to those who are at the center of the Church, we will have a big problem."
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Our "Beatles moment" on the via della Conciliazione as we greeted the cardinals with a simple message: Your sisters remain outside.
#OrdainWomen
#consistory
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The new document from the Congregation for Clergy continues the pernicious idea that men, who can be ordained, are "preferable" to women for "the full care of souls." This is not only offensive, but flies in the face of the real soul care that Catholic women provide globally. 1/4
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Knock, knock! Who's there? More than half the Church! ...happy feast of St.
#MaryMagdalene
-- we're reading the signs of the times in Philly!
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Our statement on the final document of Pope Francis' October 2023 Synod on Synodality
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#LetHerVoiceCarry
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The church needs women cardinals -- AND, we would add, women in ordained ministry.
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SHE WAS ONE OF JESUS' MOST PROMINENT FOLLOWERS AND THE FIRST PERSON TO TELL ABOUT HIS RESURRECTION AND LIKE THE APOSTLE TO THE APOSTLES BUT THEN POPE GREGORY CALLED HER A PROSTITUTE AND FOLKS BELIEVED IT AND THIS KIND OF DISTORTION CONTRIBUTES TO THE REJECTION OF WOMEN AS PRIESTS
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We still want to highlight diocesan synod reports, like this from Newark: "Participants in nearly every parish said that it is time for women to be ordained as deacons and priests. These ideas were very strongly accompanied by an underlying sense of frustration." 1/3
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Our message to
@Pontifex
this Sunday: it is the same Spirit that calls women to the ministries of lector and catechist that calls women to the diaconate and priesthood. Listen to their experiences and embrace them as equal partners in faith.
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"it is categorically untrue that there were only twelve apostles...it is crystal clear that there were women apostles." - A NT scholar making an important point from the audience (She didn't identify herself, unfortunately!)
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God gives us a bigger, more expansive dream of vocation than what the hierarchy has defended for too long. This Vocations Sunday, pray to
#OrdainWomen
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We take
@Pontifex
's call to “journey together” seriously, so we’ve personally invited
@CardinalBCupich
& every priest in Chicago to join us for a Pentecost Sunday witness outside the Chicago cathedral to listen to the voices of Catholic women. We sincerely hope they will come.💜
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"If a woman can't claim as much as a pronoun in this church, how in the world can she claim the diaconate?" - Sr. Joan Chittister. We cannot cultivate our own invisibility.
#RadicalsandtheRule
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Highest ranking German-Swiss nun calls for women's ordination to the priesthood
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The continued exclusion of women from holy orders contributes to the very culture of abuse that has failed and harmed so many. A synodal church demands the full participation of women as equal partners in ordained ministry, and nothing less.
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Tomorrow the
#Vatican
will begin hosting a three day meeting, “Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood,” coordinated by Cardinal Ouellet and the “Research and Anthropology Center for Vocations.” Hmm. Our thoughts? 😇
#OrdainWomen
, or stop baptizing them.
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We pray that our church and society might awaken to the Good News that women, and people of all genders, are fully human, fully possess human rights, and are fully capable of imaging Christ.
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The church can't recognize the dignity of human beings when it doesn't recognize the dignity of women - Sr. Teresa Forcades
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The
#Myrrhbearers
were Jesus' most steadfast followers -- the women who stayed at the foot of the cross, tended to his body after death, and who were the first to witness the Resurrection.
#HolySaturday
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Happy feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostles....check out this "resurrection garden" popping up at
@MarysShrine
in DC to call the Church to
#OrdainWomen
!
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(1/8) A 🧵 about the recent
@commonwealmag
article about women’s ordination (which we will not link to) that features our logo and website in its lead photo: It rehashes a tired argument that women who feel called are acting out of an individualistic, self-interested model...
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"Every single [synod] document I've read names two big problems: clericalism, and the issue of women. And to solve number two you need to solve number one." - Phyllis Zagano
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There’s no vocations crisis—only a crisis of a patriarchy lacking the imagination and courage to
#OrdainWomen
.
#VocationsSunday
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People of all genders discern a vocation to the priesthood. Their calls are just as powerful and as real as those experienced by men. To suggest that it is beyond God's power to call them is inconsistent with our understanding of an omnipotent, loving God.
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Happy feast day of St. Hildegard von Bingen - abbess, mystic, writer, composer, artist, scientist, Doctor of the Church.
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"So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples." — Matthew 28:8
"Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: 'I have seen the Lord!'" — John 20:18
Happy Easter!
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It's one of our favorite days of the year.....the Feast of Mary Magdalene!!!! 🧵👇
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"As long as men and only men – and only ordained men – dominate every single area of the church, the power-dynamic is going to keep on creeping back."
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And the scandal is that women are ready, waiting, fully equipped, and called by God to be priests. Not just because there is a priest shortage, but because they have irreplaceable gifts to offer the Church. A huge part of the "pastoral solution" is to
#OrdainWomen
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#VaticanII
, which began 60 years ago today, showed that the church develops and changes over time - that the Holy Spirit is always on the move. We believe that same Spirit is calling the church to
#OrdainWomen
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“...I am also aware that these arguments [against women's ordination] are becoming less & less convincing & that there are well-developed arguments in theology in favor of opening up the sacramental ministry to women as well”
-Bishop Bätzing
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"The only "serious confusion" among the faithful is just how long the
#Vatican
will continue to parade indefensible arguments that attempt to limit the reaches of God's call."
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"I protest this church with the language it gave me." - Allison Connelly (quoting a Methodist student protesting the recent UMC decision)
@reimagineconf
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"The church should accept there is simply no good argument to keep women out of the priesthood."
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If Jesus chose Mary Magdalene to be the herald of the Good News, why won't we be hearing a woman preaching the Gospel this Easter Sunday? An Easter message from
@CampaignWOW
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We call upon the people of God who ache for the Eucharist in these times to unite that pain with the pain of women, for whom the sacrament of Holy Orders has alway been inaccessible.
@Pontifex
#VocationsSunday
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While this is not groundbreaking to most Catholics, the inclusion of global calls for women’s ordination reflects a refreshing spirit of openness and accountability to the People of God.
#Synod23
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“Our experience at the Vatican today was symptomatic of the treatment of all women by the Catholic church. The Roman police were encouraged to remove us from view and to hide our words and witness from the world."
@MiriamTDuignan
@CampaignWOW
#consistory
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| Ordaining women |
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Sign our petition!
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On International Women's Day, Pope Francis called for an applause for women, saying "they deserve it." Please, hold your applause! We'll take our rights/rites first.
#OrdainWomen
#IWD
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Happy feast day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, patron saint of women's ordination! 💜🌹In her honor, three years ago, a banner was dropped in Rome
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"We don't have a vocations crisis...there are so many women who have been called to serve the church who have been turned away." -
@dearmisskate
in
@ncronline
's conversation with
@BpStowe
and
@cwwhiteNCR
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However, it is not enough. The continued exclusion of women from ordained ministries not only contributes to sacramental scarcity & clericalism, it reinforces cultural & social discrimination. This step does not remedy the vast inequalities women face within the Catholic church.
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Happy feast of St. Phoebe the deacon!
Only when all genders are equally included in all ordination rites—as deacons, priests, and bishops—and at all Church decision-making tables, can we begin to restore our Gospel values of equality and justice.
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Our message to
@Pontifex
this Sunday: it is the same Spirit that calls women to the ministries of lector and catechist that calls women to the diaconate and priesthood. Listen to their experiences and embrace them as equal partners in faith.
#OrdainWomen
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@Pontifex
God has given countless women a vocation to the priesthood - but the Church denies them the opportunity to put their talents and abilities at the service of others.
#OrdainWomen
The Lord gives each of us a vocation, a challenge to discover the talents and abilities we possess and to put them at the service of others.
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"I feel in me the vocation of a priest! With what love, O Jesus, would I bear you in my hands, when at the sound of my words you came down from heaven! With what love would I give you to souls!"
Happy feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux!
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Yes. And when the institutional church denies women's sacramental equality, causing spiritual harm and perpetuating a culture of oppression, it also insults God.
#OrdainWomen
#PopeFrancis
today:
"How much violence is directed toward women. Enough! To hurt a woman is to insult God."
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Extended interview with our ED
@dearmisskate
in
@Sojourners
with
@mitchellatencio
: ‘SEXISM IS A CARDINAL SIN’ CATHOLIC WOMEN TELL VATICAN
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Women + nonbinary people do priestly work. Ordain them!
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Managed to welcome a few cardinals walking into the consistory (and remind them not to forget their sisters outside) before being detained and brought to the police station for 4+ hours
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We didn't forget: It has been 122 days since Pope Francis announced he would reconvene the commission on women deacons. We're still waiting. ⏲️
@Pontifex
#OrdainWomen
#WomenDeacons
#DeaconWatch
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"Ordain Women" banner flies outside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on feast of
#StTherese
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"Look folks" - good gender-neutral term from
@POTUS
Joe Biden. An example for the Vatican...may we suggest "Folki Tutti"?
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Imagine if this church of 1 billion people said "women are equal" - what it would do for oppressed women worldwide. -
@jamielmanson
#ordainwomen
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While this
#VocationsSunday
may look and feel quite different, one thing hasn't changed: the gifts and vocations of women are valid, vibrant, and vital.
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Glad that
@Pontifex
is speaking out against violence against women, but this video seems to conveniently forget that women suffer cultural, structural, spiritual, and even physical violence at the hands of the institutional Church every day
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On the eve of tomorrow's extraordinary consistory, we say: Brother cardinals,
@pontifex
, your sisters in Christ are outside, are waiting, and are called to priesthood.
#OrdainWomen
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Ever wonder what nearly 9,000 signatures for
#votesforcatholicwomen
looks like? Ready for hand delivery to
#Synod2018
tomorrow! 💪💪
@vofwomen
@FutureChurchUSA
@rc_women
@NewWaysMinistry
@quixotecenter
@CampaignWOW
@synod2018
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Like Mary Magdalene, we carry a bold and clear message to the
#Synod
:
#OrdainWomen
#LetHerVoiceCarry
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Until the hierarchy starts accusing every man seeking ordination of “clericalism,” we ask that the pontiff stop projecting the problems and corruption of his male hierarchy onto women longing to serve the Church.
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#PopeFrancis
on women's leadership in the Catholic Church:
"To say [women] aren’t truly leaders because they aren't priests is clericalist and disrespectful."
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Ordination to the priesthood is about a calling⏤about listening to the voice of God in our innermost being and responding to the invitation to love and serve one another. God does not limit our call on the basis of gender.
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"In Jesus’ time, women were considered unreliable witnesses, and their testimony was not credible in court. And yet, Mary Magdalene is the one Jesus sends to announce the miracle of the Resurrection to the disciples."
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Editorial from the Irish Independent:
"An organisation that sacrificed its integrity over the handling of endemic child sex abuse in the ranks simply has no moral authority to keep the doors barred against women any longer. "
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Catholic women are called by God: called to priesthood; called to equality; called to full participation in the leadership of the church. We know these women, we walk with these women, we are these women.
#VocationSunday
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We're so excited to be welcoming our summer intern, Alyssa! Alyssa is an incoming college student and has worked in women's advocacy throughout high school, done personal advocacy for women's ordination, and is very involved in her church. Help us welcome Alyssa!
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If you need a stark reminder of the stained glass ceiling: Despite the Pope's "many" appointments of women to leadership positions in the
#Vatican
, on Monday & Tuesday 197 *ordained men* will gather in a closed door session to discuss Francis' reforms of the curia.
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This is a significant crack in the stained glass ceiling, and the result of sustained advocacy, activism and the witness of the collaborative “Votes for Catholic Women” campaign, of which the Women’s Ordination Conference played a founding role.
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YES to this clear and strongly worded statement from the Diocese of Oakland's
#synod
report:
"Ordained ministry should be open to women, fully and affirmatively."
#LetHerVoiceCarry
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Hans Küng, the influential Swiss Catholic theologian whose life-long pursuit of progressive Church reforms (including the ordination of women) has died. His life serves as an example of the power of prophetic dissent. May he rest in peace.
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We've signed onto this statement and are sharing in the hopes that you might like to do so, as well! You can sign on as an individual or an organization.
Our Catholic faith and tradition compels us to respect and honor the faith journeys of LGBTQ people. We know that those who enter into committed relationships do so out of love which is divinely inspired and supported. Affirm your commitment at .
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“I look forward to the time when we will not need to talk about ‘women clergy’ anymore; rather we can simply talk about ‘clergy.'" - The Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan, celebrates 20 years of ordaining women:
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Dream-weaving God, pour out your prophetic, visionary Spirit upon us: That we will not just see visions, but realize them; that we will not just dream dreams, but enact them. Be our breath, our Ruach, as we cry out:
#OrdainWomen
#VocationsSunday
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We denounce white supremacy and the systemic violence of racism. We stand unequivocally with those who are marginalized, silenced, or discriminated against, and work to transform oppressive structures of domination, inequality, imperialism, and racism. 1/2
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"Ordain Women" banner flies outside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on feast of
#StTherese
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Can you imagine?
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Feast of St Mary Magdalene. What if the church had been founded on the rock of faith of a woman who did not abandon Jesus when he was being killed, who went to his tomb to anoint his tortured body, who was the first to see the risen Lord, and the first to proclaim this good news?
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"We are all baptized into the priesthood of believers...if we are all part of that community, let us be a full part of that community." -Bernadette Raspante, answering "What's the argument for women's ordination?" And, basically, ordain women or stop baptizing them.
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We are holding close in prayer today the people of
#Afghanistan
, especially the girls and women whose rights are at grave risk or already severely diminished.
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While this
#VocationsSunday
may look and feel quite different, one thing hasn't changed: the gifts and vocations of women are valid, vibrant, and vital.
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