Wear a Blue Ribbon to support Justice and Truth for Abuse Victims We Are Church is calling on its members and everyone concerned to wear a blue ribbon this week. The blue ribbon is a symbol of our support for and solidarity with all the victims and survivors of...

No cardinals - Snub or Boycott? It has been revealed to We Are Church Ireland that none of the 15 Cardinals who are coming to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families will attend  "The Voices of Impact :Women Leaders Shaping Global Change" Symposium on 24th and 25th...

‘All are Welcome’ just a PR slogan at World Meeting of Families We Are Church Ireland has received a communication from an anonymous source within the World Meeting of Families. It includes a copy of a circular from WMoF sent out towards the end of July to selected...

Call for Synod on Human Sexuality. The publication of Pope Paul V1's encyclical, Humanae Vitae, on 25th July 1968 caused dissent and division within the Catholic Church not seen since the Reformation and fifty years later its legacy remains as controversial as ever,...

NO WELCOME FOR WE ARE CHURCH IRELAND AT WORLD MEETING of FAMILIES. No decision about WAC Ireland's application for an exhibition stand that was made 5 months ago. WAC Ireland is astonished and dismayed by the discriminatory manner by which it has been treated by the...

WAC welcomes political leaders support for Women’s ordination. We are Church Ireland welcomes and endorses the call by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister Josepha Madigan and the Leader of Fianna Fáil, Michéal Martin, for women's ordination in the Catholic Church as an...

We Are Church Ireland considers Pope Francis's recent reported comments on LGBTQI families and the position of women betrayed by unfaithful husbands as a huge step backwards. In his address to the Italian 'Forum delle Famiglie ',he affirmed that the family with only a...

PRESS RELEASE 7 June 2018   PETITION TO POPE FRANCIS: CHANGE CHURCH LGBTQI LANGUAGE Today, Thursday 7th June We Are Church Ireland is launching a petition calling on Pope Francis to change Vatican theological language that is gravely insulting to LGBTQI people. Words...

WAC welcomes Pride theme ‘We Are Family’ and calls for place of honour for LGBTQ families at WMoF. We Are Church Ireland welcomes the Dublin Pride Festival's adoption of the theme 'We Are Family'; for this year's celebration and we would ask all Catholic families and...

WAC members call to Bishops to open all ministries to women. We Are Church Ireland is being represented at the "Voices of Faith" conference in Rome on March 8th by Ursula Halligan at which Mary McAleese will be the keynote speaker. The theme of the meeting is "Why...

We Are Church Ireland is outraged at the latest insult to LBGTI families exhibited by the organisers of the WMoF which Pope Francis is due to attend in August. The first insult was the elimination of text and a picture of a gay couple from the brochure for the WMoF...

Cardinal Farrell’s snub is an insult to the dignity of Catholic Women. Mary McAleese represents the voice of women both in the Catholic Church and the wider world. Cardinal Farrell's snub of this outstanding Catholic woman has not alone insulted her integrity but also...