We Are Church Ireland response to the Petrocchi Report on admission of women to the diaconate
We Are Church Ireland response to the Petrocci Commission report. We Are Church Ireland wishes to add its voice to those who have expressed deep disappointment at the conclusions of the Petrocchi Commission report, barring women from the diaconate, which was released...
Reflections on the Pre-Synodal Assembly of the Catholic Church in Ireland, held in Kilkenny on 18th October 2025.
Reflections on the Pre-Synodal Assembly of the Catholic Church in Ireland, held in Kilkenny on 18th October 2025. About 230 people gathered in Kilkenny on Saturday, 18th October to participate in a meeting described as a Pre-Synodal Assembly, comprising...
A Divine Calling: One Woman’s Life-Long Battle for Equality in the Catholic Church by Soline Humbert
Soline Humbert’s spiritual autobiography makes a strong case for women’s ordination in the Catholic Church.
A Personal Reflection on the GNRC Assembly
I attended the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics 5th General Assembly in Madrid this summer as delegate from We Are Church Ireland, which is a member of GNRC. One of our aims is An inclusive church, open and welcoming to all, which does not marginalise people...
Putting Synodality in Dialogue with the Wizard of Oz: What Can be Learned?
In a recent article in the Irish Catholic, Noelle Fitzpatrick explored how the “Wizard of Oz” story can be used as a lens to explore the Synodal journey.
Who will roll away the stone of patriarchy from our Church tomb.
Article in Irish Daily Mail 26 April 2025 by Soline Humbert
We Are Church Ireland submission to Irish Synodal Spring gathering
Extracts from We Are Church Ireland submission to National Synodal Steering Committee
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...