Violent attack on the annual Pride Parade in Berlin on 25th July 2026
We in We Are Church Ireland offer our heartfelt condolences to the loved ones of the woman who was killed during the violent attack on people participating in the annual Pride Parade in Berlin. May she Rest in Peace. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and with...
Dublin Pride Parade_Saturday June 27
If you would like to join us, we will be meeting at the top of O'Connell Street, in front of Dr. Quirky's, opposite the Gresham, at 12.00 noon, for a start time of 12.30pm.
Press release on 19 June 2026 from We Are Church International on LGBTQ+ Equality in the Catholic Church
We Are Church International calls on the Catholic Church to change it’s teaching that it considers homosexual tendencies to be "objectively disordered". Such teaching continues to fuel discrimination and supports legislation such as: · Ghana’s new...
Address by Julieann Moran at German Catholic Conference_ Würzburg _ 16 May 2026
My first observation concerns how and who shapes the future. Cardinal Grech has reminded us that synodality is not simply a process or a programme but a way of being Church, rooted in baptism and in the conviction that the Holy Spirit speaks through the whole People...
Report on May 15th Prayer Vigil in Dublin Church for an end to violence against the LGBTQ+ community
On Friday, May 15 th, in the Parish Hall of Kimmage Manor church, a Prayer Vigil was held for an end to violence against the LGBTQ+ community. This was not a great newsworthy event, or merited any fanfare. But for the Le Chéile LGBTQ+ Solidarity group, formed in our...
Stand up for women’s rights: The denied vocation – A plea for full justice-Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers- German Catholic Congress in Würzburg May 2026.
Address given by the Auxiliary Bishop of Essen, Ludger Schepers, at the German Catholic Congress in Würzburg May 2026. I. A new beginning: No more excuses I know that many of you are tired of hearing this phrase: ‘The role of women is a central concern of our...
Soline Humbert felt called to ordination. This Irish priest paid a price for supporting her _ National Catholic Reporter _27 April 2026
Article in National Catholic Reporter by Sarah Mc Donald on 27 April 2026. At the first World Day of Prayer for the Ordination of Women Priests in 1994 in Dublin, Soline Humbert's banner posed a challenge: "Imagine women priests in the Catholic Church by...
Women and the Catholic Church_ The Journal_ Fr. Tony Flannery _ 11 April 2026
Women and the Catholic Church Reform has long been promised, but real change has been denied AFTER A LONG period of stagnation, even retrenchment, in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis was a reformer. Through a movement which he called Synodality, he attempted to...
Statement from Irish Association of Catholic Priests on 21 March 2026 concerning Bishop Alan Mc Guckian’s comments on female diaconate
It is reported (Irish Catholic, 19 March 2026) that Bishop Alan McGuckian ‘thinks the door to female diaconate is shut and that his fellow Jesuit Pope Francis should have said so’. We respectfully disagree. Bishop Alan has spoken boldly. But has he listened to the...
Presentation to Catholic Women’s Council event “Women Resisting Patriarchy” by Soline (Vatinel) Humbert on 14 March 2026
WOMEN RESISTING PATRIARCHY A Divine Calling Soline (Vatinel) Humbert CWC 14 March 2026 I was born in France in a Catholic family, the second and last child, with just one older brother. My mother was parish catechist. In many ways I am a child of the Vatican 2...
PRESS RELEASE: 20 March 2026: WAC Ireland Responds to the Vatican Study Group 5 Report, on the Participation of Women in the Life and Leadership of the Church.
PRESS RELEASE: 20 March 2026: WAC Ireland Responds to the Vatican Study Group 5 Report, on the Participation of Women in the Life and Leadership of the Church. HOPES DASHED AGAIN! Last week, the eagerly awaited final report on ‘Women’, Study Group 5 from the...
WAC Ireland celebrated INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8 MARCH 2026 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Dublin
EQUALITY FOR WOMEN IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: WAC Ireland celebrated INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY;8 MARCH 2026 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Dublin. Wearing green St Brigid’s Cloaks we handed out leaflets calling for EQUALITY for Women in the Catholic Church. We Are Church...