FutureChurch's
20th Anniversary Benefit and Silent Auction
With Sr. Theresa Kane
In Cleveland:
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Women and the Word for Educators: Free Sample!
Includes essays, prayer services and student work sheets about notable
women such as Prisca, Phoebe, Dorothy Day and St. Mary of Magdala.
For a free sample packet to give to your favorite high school religion and Spanish teachers, email:
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To Purchase A celebrating Women Women Witnesses Packet click here
To send a post card to put woment biblical leaders back in the lectionary
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| CTA 2010 National
Conference
Faithful Prophets:
God Alive in Every Generation
November 5-7
Milawaukee, WI
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Women Leaders in Early Christianity CD and Presenter's Guide
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Includes 43 images of catacomb frescos and sarcophagi friezes of early women leaders and an extensively researched 16 page presenter's guide. Click here to order
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Featured Article
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| A Million Voices Resource Ready to Download
E ducates about the use of gospel nonviolence when a
Catholic's right and responsibility to speak on a "matter concerning
the good of the Church" (Canon 212.2) is violated. Info and download here
An important educational component is a CD audio recording of a 1999 debate at Georgetown University "Can a Woman Receive the Sacrament of Orders?" between Sr.Maureen Fiedler and Fr. Joseph Fessio. Click here to order ($8).
Another key resource is Richard Taylor's wonderful book: Love in Action: Gospel Nonviolence to Renew and Reform the Church Click here to order ($13)
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Claim Your Catholic Rights!
(and Responsibilities)
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American Catholic Council
Pentecost Weekend
June 10-12, 2011
Detroit Convention Center
Click for more info!
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Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America
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new exhibit documenting the contributions made by US women religious in
the history of the United States opened last winter. It will run for
three years and has achieved significant critical acclaim.
View short videos and city venues here |
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Dear Friends of FutureChurch: We hope you enjoy our August E-Newsletter. Share it with others by clicking here.
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10,000 Last Minute Changes in Missal Translation? Cardinal Francis George announced August 20 that controversial translations of the new Roman Missal will be launched in Advent 2011. But behind the headlines, observers say as many as 10,000 unprecedented last minute changes were made over the past six months. Some believe this amounts to a "strong apologetic for the rejected 1997/1998 sacramentary" which was shelved after ten years of work in order to produce these new translations purportedly closer to the original Latin. It could just be that Fr. Michael Ryan's What if We Just Said Wait? initiative had a profound effect.
For more info click on links below:
USCCB comparisons of priests and people's parts
For Explanatory Commentary
FAQ: The New English Missal Translation
Use of new Roman Missal to begin in US at Advent 2011
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Bishop Robinson, Fr. Cozzens Speak Boldly At the annual meeting of Austrailia's National Conference of Priests, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson and Fr. Donald Cozzens both both spoke forthrightly about the need for optional celibacy and other changes in the church.
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson: "In the most male dominated civil society, at least men have a woman at home to have some influence on them. In the church, not even that is present."
Fr. Donald Cozzens: "Isn't there a touch of arrogance in [the church] stating that God will give the charism of celibacy to a man who wants to be a diocesan priest?"
Robinson also charged that George Pell was appointed
cardinal of Melbourne solely to receive a red hat and become a papal
elector. Read more...
View New Optional Celibacy Video
SEND an Electronic Postcard asking to open
discussion of mandatory celibacy in the Church
DOWNLOAD a free So All Can Be at the Table Education/Advocacy Resource
FutureChurch Optional Celibacy Survey (2010)
Active Parishioners Ready for Change Read Survey results
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Honor Your Parish Priest - New! Priesthood Sunday Prayer Service: Every October 31, Catholics honor our priests who often must work double duty in this time of priest shortage. This new prayer service affirms priests who like St. Paul, embraced the celibate charism in their service to God's people. It also includes a prayer that Church leaders will welcome into the Latin rite those who, like St. Peter, embrace their call to priestly service as married men. Prayer for women deacons included too.
Great for parishes, prayer groups, book groups or other gatherings.
Includes: 2010 service, tips for planning a Priesthood
Sunday celebration, sample press release, two sample op eds, postcard
templates, fact sheets, reproducible artwork, bibliography, and more.
Free download here
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New Vatican Appointee Positive about US Women Religious. Redemptorist Fr. Joseph Tobin hopes to offer the Vatican a "different picture" of women religious in the United States. On August 3, he was appointed to the number two position in the Vatican's Congregation for Religious. He was quoted saying he suspects the choice of an American known to be sympathetic to women religious may reflect awareness of "just how badly" a controversial Vatican investigation of women's orders has been received. Read more...
Women Religious Address Visitation, Global Outreach From August 12-16, some 750 leaders of 1500 US religious communities met at the annual meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in Dallas. They heard from two well known theologians, M. Shawn Copeland and Richard Gaillardetz, and outgoing president, Sister Marlene Weisenbeck, FSPA. After this input, the assembly discussed both the apostolic visitation of all US orders of Catholic sisters, as well as a separate inquiry being conducted by the Vatican on the position of LCWR in matters pertaining to Catholic church doctrine. Noting the solidarity expressed by women religious worldwide, they unanimously approved a resolution to strengthen bonds with women religious globally. Read more
Dallas bishop welcomes LCWR - with media absent
Theologian implores LCWR to remain prophetic
Women religious experiences have implications for entire church
LCWR initiatives have global reach
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"Catholic Voices For Reform" organize ahead of UK Papal visit. A Catholic speakers' bureau is being launched ahead of next month's papal visit to provide alternative views on controversial church issues such as child abuse, women's ordination, married priests and homosexuality. A more conservative group, "Catholic Voices," has been training for months to articulate more traditional church positions. The new organisation will call for a wholesale transformation of the papacy and the Vatican. Read more...
UK Prelate Predicts New Phase in Church
London bus ads to back women priests during pope's visit
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News from Appealing Parishes
Community of St. Peter Celebrates Mass After Bishop Richard Lennon suppressed their vibrant parish, members of Cleveland's St. Peter parish organized a new Community of St. Peter to stay together and continue their ministry to the urban poor. They leased commercial space and celebrated their first Mass on Sunday, August 15 with Pastor Fr. Bob Marrone presiding. "The Community of St. Peter holds to the fundamental teachings and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church," said parishioner Bob Zack of Independence. "We consider ourselves neither a focal point of dissent nor a schismatic organization." St. Peter's is one of 12 closed Cleveland parishes with appeals pending in the Vatican.
St. Peter split from diocese symbolizes defining moment for all Catholics: Regina Brett
Bishop Richard Lennon seeks meeting with breakaway Catholics
Bishop Lennon Letter to Cleveland Parishes
Priest, trustees from breakaway St. Peter parish willing to meet with Bishop Lennon
Voice from the rustbelt re: Eucharistic Solidarity Mass
Boston Parishes Appeal to Pope Benedict St Jeremiah and other Boston parishes remain in vigil despite the denial of their appeal by the Vatican's Apostolic Signatura. They plan to appeal the desanctification of their church and to join others in an Extraordinary Recourse to Pope Benedict.
Related Stories
Renegade Priest Leads a Split St. Louis Parish (NY Times)
Showdown in St. Louis (Commonweal)
Breakaway Polish church in Missouri rejects archdiocese's reconciliation deal
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Celebrate WOC's 35th Anniversary! Featuring the Chicago premier of the film Pink Smoke Over The Vatican a documentary about the women's ordination movement.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Register here
Rosemary Radford Reuther on Women priests offer differing approaches to valid ordination
Traditionalist Anglicans split over response to ordaining women bishops
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Permitting Altar Girls Ends Idea of Gender Impurity An article published Aug. 7 in L'Osservatore Romano notes that "The exclusion of
girls from all of this, for the sole reason of their being female, has
always weighed heavily and represented a deep inequality within
Catholic education..". Permitting girls to assist at the altar "has meant the idea they were impure because of their gender came to an end" and has meant girls, too, "could live out this extraordinarily important formative experience," it said. The article came the same week Pope Benedict XVI met with more than 53,000 altar servers from Europe during his Aug. 4 weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square. The majority of young pilgrims, aged 14-25, were female -- 60 percent, according to organizers. Read more...
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Book Review: Receiving the Council: Theological and Canonical Insights and Debates Liturgical Press (2009)
 By: Ladislas Orsy
Review By: Barbara Riviello Guerin
Receiving the Council is an objective yet personal diagnosis of the state of the Catholic Church's highly centralized and authoritarian organizational structure and its impact on the ability to realize the value of the Second Vatican Council. The author focuses on the theological understanding of the Church as a communion and how the role of the hierarchy should flow from that as compared to the role of the hierarchy which has evolved and is perpetuated at the present time by the Vatican. Read more...
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Sponsor a Listening Session On the Future of the Church The American Catholic Council is a new coalition of organizations, communities and individuals organizing "discussion at every level of the Catholic Church in the United States to consider the state and future of our Church." The coalition will convene a nationwide conference on Pentecost 2011 (June 10-12) at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan.
But first it hopes to encourage local and regional listening sessions to be held over the next 7 months.
Read about Cleveland Listening Session
To download a free toolkit for sessions in your home, parish or small faith community click here.
For more info on the American Catholic Council, click here.
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