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...
PRESS RELEASE _1 December 2022_ Pope Francis Undermines His Own Synodal Project
PRESS RELEASE 1 December 2022 Pope Francis Undermines His Own Synodal Project Is Pope Francis practising the ‘Listening’ that he preaches? We Are Church Ireland is astonished and disappointed at recent comments made by Pope Francis on the role of women in the Church....
PRESS RELEASE: 27 April 2022: REVISED -WAC warmly Welcomes Laity voting at Synod!
REVISED WAC warmly Welcomes Laity voting at Synod! WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND warmly welcomes the decision by Pope Francis to include 80 non-bishops of which 40 are women with full voting rights at the upcoming Synods. This is something that WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND has long...
PRESS RELEASE : 26 April 2022 _WAC warmly Welcomes Laity voting at Synod!
WAC warmly Welcomes Laity voting at Synod! WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND warmly welcomes the decision by Pope Francis to include 35 lay women and 35 lay men with full voting rights at the upcoming Synods. This is something that WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND has long campaigned for...
PRESS RELEASE: 15 March 2022_ No Synod Transparency from Irish Bishops
No Synod Transparency from Irish Bishops Pope Francis has asked us all to take part in the Synodal process and let our voices be heard. But it is our bishops who will finalise the Synthesis or summary for Ireland. So We Are Church decided to ask our bishops do they...
PRESS RELEASE 8_ March 2022 _“We Are Church Ireland calls on the male hierarchy to reform the sexist structure of the institutional church and end the second class status of Catholic women.
PRESS RELEASE 8 March 2022 “We Are Church Ireland calls on the male hierarchy to reform the sexist structure of the institutional church and end the second class status of Catholic women. As a first step towards this goal, it calls on the patriarchy to ensure that...