Kate McElwee
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Executive Director @OrdainWomen. @MtHolyoke & @SOAS alum. #OrdainWomen
Rome, Italy
Joined May 2009
Vatican includes @OrdainWomen on synod website. "I hope that this move from the synod office empowers more women to engage with the process and speak out." #Synod23
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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 #OrdainWomen
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As #PopeFrancis is about to open the #synod… we carry a message from the prophetic edges of the church #OrdainWomen @OrdainWomen @CampaignWOW
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If only the institutional Catholic Church could experience the JOY and vibrancy of witnessing & affirming & celebrating a woman answering her call to priesthood. #OrdainWomen
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What a hollow performance of synodality from the Vatican, using shadowy commissions to dismiss the calls for women's ordination by calling the issue not yet "mature." The gifts of women are rotting on the vine. #OrdainWomen #synod2024.
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I wish the Catholics who keep sending me hate mail would take a day off and read #FratelliTutti instead.
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Just got my second vaccine shot! (After scheduling the earliest available appointments for someone my age and in good health in Italy) 🥳 grateful
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Oh the irony of celebrating the appointment of women to be part of the process of selecting bishops, a position they themselves are prohibited from holding because of their gender. #OrdainWomen.
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Absolutely devastating. @CBSEveningNews @NorahODonnell: “for a little girl growing up Catholic today, will she ever have the opportunity to be a deacon and participate as a clergy member in the church?”. Pope Francis: “No.”.#OrdainWomen.
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“End Clergy Abuse” witness in Rome this afternoon with striking portraits of survivors
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"The Women Who Want to Be Priests" @NewYorker! Yes yes yes! Finally out & so honored to be include alongside those of such prophetic ministries! @KPacyniak @DebRoseFC @nimperatori @MiriamTDuignan @we_irl @brown_myra @VaticanReject and more #OrdainWomen
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“The Catholic Church in Australia is now formally expressing that it is very open to [women deacons] should the Pope authorise it. " #OrdainWomen.
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Today we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, where the angel visited Mary and she said "yes" to being the mother of Jesus. RT if you think that, like Mary, *everyone* should have a choice about if, when, where, and how they conceive.
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We at @OrdainWomen invite Pope Francis to meet with women called to ordained ministry to more fully grasp their sincere calls to serve the church. We also ask #synod delegates to speak boldly in this moment. #OrdainWomen.
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This about sums it up: "They called for female leadership at the Vatican. They were arrested." Thanks to @ClaireGiangrave for this brilliant report. #OrdainWomen via @RNS.
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Extraordinary women are here. Disrupting patriarchal business-as-usual at the Vatican. #OrdainWomen #ListeningChurch (?)
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While this isn't a radical shift, what is radical is the Church recognizing common practices around the world and taking doctrinal shifts to be more inclusive.
Flash: #PopeFrancis changes Catholic Church law to make explicit women can act as lectors and altar servers. This effectively removes a previous option for individual bishops to restrict those ministries only to men, @joshjmac reports.
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I wish Pope Francis responded to @Kerry_Weber's question pastorally; he completely ignores the woman at the center of the question - who is serving her church & called to priesthood - and instead vamps on the spousal metaphor. #OrdainWomen @americamag.
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"No Christian should need to be reminded of the moral error of discrimination. yet the Roman Catholic Church, my church, excludes more than half its members from full participation by barring women, for reasons of gender alone, from the priesthood"
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"Feminism is, in other words, not a women’s question: It is the human question of the century. It’s not about getting what men already have. Not on your life. What men have is not nearly enough. Feminism is about getting a better world, for everybody." @joanchittister.
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The institutional church’s expanding vision of the ways women contribute to the life of the church is long overdue. Women are the heartbeat of the church, and glacially, the Vatican is beginning to open its eyes to the possibility that women might be equal collaborators in faith.
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Leave it to the Roman Catholic Church to grant voting rights to one woman. In 2022. Maybe. #VotesForCatholicWomen.
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Quite impressed by the @USCCB synod team's debriefing session with the "Region XVI" organizations and groups who submitted their synod reports. So much good will can be built by just listening to people.
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Stark contrast from Pope Francis' 2013 statement on women's ordination: "the Church has spoken and says no … that door is closed." And the @Synod_va doc today, acknowledging that is not a consistently held belief of the world's faithful. #OrdainWomen #LetHerVoiceCarry.
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We cannot allow inequality among God's people to be considered a "closed issue." #OrdainWomen #LetHerVoiceCarry.
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Deeper than our disappointment is our resolve and determination to ensure no young girl ever be told "no" to the call she receives from God. #OrdainWomen @OrdainWomen.
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Our messages to the cardinals and prelates who meet behind closed doors without women #consistory @OrdainWomen #OrdainWomen
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As @pontifex visits Slovakia, we call upon him to publicly recognize the ministry of woman priest Ludmila Javorova, who was ordained by a bishop in good standing in 1970 to serve the persecuted underground Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia. #OrdainWomen.
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Sr. Joan Chittister: "Equality is a right. It's not a favor. The women attending the synod on synodality are there as a favor, not as a right." @rhina_guidos #LetHerVoiceCarry #Synod23.
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Representing @OrdainWomen on @CNNThisMorning celebrating a new crack in the stained glass ceiling with #VotesForCatholicWomen becoming a reality. 💜
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“How much damage we have done, as men, by endorsing a status of superiority,” said Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet via @inesanma
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Just as the Apostle Peter is given the epithet "rock," ("You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church"), Mary could well have acquired a title "Magdalene" meaning "tower of faith," or "Mary the magnified." via @NCRonline.
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I love this photo from Monday morning… just another day at the office… nothing suspicious here ☂️
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Bringing Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister and Sr. @TeresaForcadesF together and witnessing this embrace is one of my great joys of my work for @OrdainWomen #ordainwomen
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On the eve of #IWD2023 @OrdainWomen and @Catholic4Choice shine a light for human rights #OrdainWomen
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Women's ordination is not a crime! Sign @OrdainWomen's petition to reject canon 1379 that attempts to suffocate the Holy Spirit & punish faithful women who dare to answer the call to ordination #OrdainWomen.
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Such a great weekend with the @OrdainWomen board and supporters in Chicago… 💜 so nice Cardinal Cartone could join us as well. #OrdainWomen #LetHerVoiceCarry
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The “enlarged tent” of last year’s synod appears to have shrunk to exclude the vast numbers of the global faithful who long for women’s gifts, service and sacramental ministries to be welcomed in the church through ordination. #OrdainWomen.
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Black Catholics respond with dismay as Gomez calls protests 'pseudo-religions' via @NCRonline.
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Throwback to Synod15: @JamesMartinSJ on the exclusion of women religious from voting: "For me this is the worst kind of sexism. It goes against the pope’s explicit desire to have more women in “leadership roles” in the church." #VotesForCatholicWomen.
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Praying for peace with @PaxChristiUSA young adult caucus 🇺🇦🙏🏼.
Some of the scenes outside the Russian Embassy in Washington DC earlier today. #RussiaUkraineConflict #RussianEmbassy
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*This* is what resulted in 4 hours of detainment by police (and a pending criminal investigation). Photo from @cwwhiteNCR's story
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It is a beautiful day for an ordination (and the @OrdainWomen team sure knows how to color coordinate!) 💜 #OrdainWomen
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Love being with this group in Warsaw, sharing our dreams for the church. #votesforcatholicwomen 💁♀️
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Best way to spend #IWD21 is with amazing Catholic feminists. oh and about 300 friends! Thank you for bringing us together @liz_dodd & @The_Tablet! @JoannaMoorhead @vofwomen @OrdainWomen.
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Irish Catholics call for ordination of women as priests in landmark report: "“Women have a special place in the Church but not an equal place.” #OrdainWomen #LetHerVoiceCarry
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“A survey of the 26 Irish diocesan reports has found that 96 per cent of people consulted favoured the ordination of women” #OrdainWomen.
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We are calling a global strike for Catholic women, Lent 2025. #OrdainWomen #CatholicWomenStrike
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For centuries, women have served in the tradition of the deacon Phoebe (Rm 16:1). Women of every generation have experienced and expressed their vocation from God to serve the church in ordained ministry. #OrdainWomen @OrdainWomen .
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Beautiful profiles of prophetic women & nonbinary people called to renewed priesthood! And the growing grassroots of church reform orgs like @OrdainWomen working for ordination justice #OrdainWomen.
Margaret Talbot looks at the growing number of women who feel a calling to the priesthood and asks: Will the Roman Catholic Church ever ordain priests who are not men?
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From the Canadian national #synod synthesis: "All regional reports acknowledged receiving requests that women be granted access to ordained ecclesial ministries.” #OrdainWomen #LetHerVoiceCarry
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Asked about women religious voting at Synods: @CardinalBCupich said: "I think that there's no reason why we shouldn't do that. I'd be all for that." #VotesForCatholicWomen #sinodoamazonico @synod_va.
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Oh the importance of coffee breaks! An impressive sea of moral theologians #CTEWC2018 #networking
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Our agenda is to live out the demands of the Gospel. Grateful to NCR for publishing my opinion piece on @OrdainWomen's synodal efforts #LetHerVoiceCarry #OrdainWomen.
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Such a good argument from @PhyllisZagano today: "You cannot have it both ways, but if you want to argue on behalf of fratelli & fraternity being inclusive, maybe we can take a look at other magisterial documents & at the Code of Canon Law." (ahem, 1024)
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I really enjoyed this conference on #Francis10. World-class speakers, incredible hospitality from @stambrose, and super engaged and thoughtful participants. Thanks to @HeidiSchlumpf for the report: via @NCRonline.
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The feast of the Annunciation is the World Day of Prayer for Women’s Ordination. Like Mary, women called to priesthood are saying yes to the invitation to bear Christ into the world. Listen to them & pray with us @INDYVocations @MenOfTheHearts #OrdainWomen.
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Totally surreal to hear myself on @NPRWeekend with @nprscottsimon talking about the recent crack in the stained glass ceiling with #VotesForCatholicWomen becoming a reality at the upcoming Vatican synod.
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Purple #OrdainWomen umbrella made it onto the plane back to Rome. along with 40 or so Vatican passport holders. As I walked to my seat I heard someone whisper ("That is one of those umbrellas!").
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This is so sad. A founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and a brilliant and thoughtful champion for women's leadership and ordination in the RCC. Dr. Hinga participated in @OrdainWomen's Commission on the Status of Women meetings in 2022.
The CTSA remembers and prays for long-standing member Teresia Mbari Hinga. See
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Thanks to @OlgaMSegura for the invitation to review "Womanpriest" . A 'love letter of unanswered questions' 💜 via @NCRonline #OrdainWomen.
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If the Pope really wanted the Church to support women’s rights, he would begin by ordaining women. #OrdainWomen.
Pope Francis says church should support women’s rights
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Pls join @OrdainWomen for our virtual #CSW66 parallel event “Climate Justice, Gender Justice, & the Catholic Church” w/ @ChanelleRobin @AmandaBaugh @scherp01 @sharonbomg @EarthBeatNCR & Teresia Mbari Hinga this Friday ✨🌍 March 25th @ Noon EDT
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Disgraceful report from @archedinburgh: "Attempts to make the equal dignity of women dependent on women doing the same things as men reduces dignity to activity. This mindset diminishes the true dignity of both men & women." Following God's call is not an "activity" #OrdainWomen.
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The Catholic Church’s Reproductive Fight Is About Controlling Women’s Freedom via @jamielmanson!!!
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Activists projected a light sign, "Votes For Catholic Women," on the doors of the Vatican's powerful doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. #votesforcatholicwomen #SinodoAmazonico.
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😅😇 oh geez.
I googled female saints and look what appeared!.@ParryThompson @dearmisskate @RootBranchSynod @PatAlexTea @MiriamTDuignan
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". sexual and spiritual misconduct against adult women is rarely if ever punished, and secrecy still reigns supreme, especially when powerful priests are involved." women via @NCRonline.
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Excited to speak on women's ordination at the "Making the Difference" 8th annual "Women and Religion" conference here in Rome. #ordainwomen
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"When it comes to change, there are many at the top of the Church who have an inability to look at themselves or the Church. Clericalism paralyzes critical faculties." - Marie Collins #CatholicTippingPoint.
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"How long must women wait?" #OrdainWomen.
For a church which thinks in centuries what may seem like small steps to those on the outside are major leaps forward for many inside. One cardinal described it as "a revolution that no one notices.". My report on the #synod2024 .
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“There are many other aspects of the Church that don’t get reflected in the naming of cardinals, beginning with the women members of the Church.” Cardinal Czerny #OrdainWomen @commonwealmag @joshjmac.
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'If we really want to embrace synodality, we have to see synodality as a decolonizing tool.'—SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai via @NCRonline @cwwhiteNCR.
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