Our reflection on the death of Pope Francis.
Reflection on the death of Pope Francis on 21 April 2025.
Protest on International Women’s Day 8 March 2025 at the “Spire” Dublin.
John Colreavy • 27 April 2025 Article by Sarah Mac Donald in Irish Independent online article published 9 March 2025 “Women see through the Catholic church’s lip service on equality” and their “second-class treatment”, according to an organiser of a Dublin protest...
The Gospels were about equality so why women are still oppressed?
Interview with Soline Humbert Irish Daily Mail 15 March 2025 SOLINE Humbert can remember the feeling she got when she was 17. It was a feeling that she couldn’t describe and one she tried to reject at the time, as unfamiliar as it was. But it was a calling that she...
A reflection by Soline Humbert on St.Brigid of Kildare for the Women’s Ordination Conference Retreat, February 2025
A reflection by Soline Humbert for the Women’s Ordination Conference Retreat “Hidden Springs, Holy Radiance” 9 February 2025 [ see recording on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szP5h1kzEsU ] We have been gathering over the past three days in the presence of...
Women are a problem for the Catholic Church, an institution with ingrained misogyny – Soline Humbert
Papal plámás is no substitute for an end to discrimination against women The Catholic Church is bedevilled by sex ... the female sex. Church men, who claim a privileged insight into the mind of God, earnestly agonise over what women can be and do. Mostly, what they...
WAC PR: “Vatican says NO to EQUALITY?”
Vatican says NO to EQUALITY? As Pope Francis said the Angelus to a packed St. Peter’s Square on Sunday 13 October 2024, We Are Church International (WAC) raised a banner to EQUALITY in support of Pope Francis. Within 5 minutes the WAC group was surrounded by police...
A Constitution for the Catholic Church
Dr Luca Badini Confalonieri with Fr Helmut Schüller This ZOOM meeting is divided into 3 parts: Dr Luca Badini presents a summary of a draft Constitution for the Catholic Church [30 minutes] Dr Luca Badini in dialogue with Fr Helmut Schüller [30minutes] Question &...
Local Churches must lead reforms
Response to Instrumentum Laboris We Are Church International (WAC) is very disappointed that women deacons are not to be on the official agenda for the Second Session of the Synod. WAC is very disappointed that so many important issues have been taken out of the Synod...
PRESS RELEASE: 29 February 2024 : WAC support for Referendums on Family and Care
WAC support for Referendums on Family and Care. WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND supports a YES vote in both the Family and Care Referendums on 8 March 2024. The Family referendum broadens the definition of family to include the lived reality of many famiies in Ireland, while...
PRESS RELEASE: 25 August 2023 -Call to Archbishop Eamon Martin to withdraw invitation to Cardinal Dolan
Call to Archbishop Eamon Martin to withdraw invitation to Cardinal Dolan WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND endorses the call by The DROMORE Group* of abuse survivors (25 August 2023) to Archbishop Eamon Martin to withdraw the invitation to the Archbishop of New york, Cardinal...
PRESS RELEASE: 31 July 2023:Why is Archbishop Eamon Martin Ignoring the Synodal Process?
Why is Archbishop Eamon Martin Ignoring the Synodal Process? WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND asks why Archbishop Eamon Martin is ignoring Pope Francis’ Synodal process by continuing to call for only MALE vocations to the priesthood when the issue of women priests featured...
PRESS RELEASE :21 July 2023 _WAC sees positive and negative signs in Synod
WAC sees positive and negative signs in Synod. WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND welcomes the format with over 100 questions set out for the Synod in October 2023. The most important discussions will center on how Synodality will be defined: Hopefully as true co-responsibilty and...