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 Apostolic Visitation of Women’s Communities:
The Church’s Oppression of All Women

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Convent of the Transfiguration
495 Albion Avenue, Glendale

Our annual meeting begins Friday evening at 5pm at Ruth Steinert Foote’s home. Her contact information:

985 Forest Avenue, Cincinnati, OH  45246
Home: 513.771.0629, 513.541.4009;
Cell: 513.604.0170
email: RHSteinert@aol.com


If you have not already done so, please let Ruth know immediately if you are coming and if you need housing. Ruth has some rooms in her home, a large Episcopal rectory. She has also made arrangements for rooms at $99 per night at a nearby Sheraton North.
Address: 11320 Chester Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45246,
PHONE: 513-771-2080
Cost for food, Friday evening dinner through Sunday morning: $40 for the weekend.

Schedule:
Friday, 9/11 --- 5:30pm: Gathering and re-connecting over drinks and dinner at Ruth’s home

Saturday, 9/12
8-9am --- Breakfast at Ruth’s home

9am-Lunch W-CC business session including:
Approval of the agenda; any additions, changes, housekeeping issues, etc.

  • Time and place for Spring conference call and Fall meeting
  • Report on American Catholic Council and our membership and support of their 2011 Detroit conference --- Susan Farrell, Marissa Valeri, Erin Sainz Hanna --- see their website at www.americancatholiccouncil.org for more information
  • Report on reproductive justice issues --- Marissa Valeri
  • Membership issues: new members and membership categories redux
  • Suggestions for two social actions: one church-related; one policy-related

Lunch at The Grand Finale restaurant (one block from the convent) --- we each pay for our own lunch
We will then re-convene at the Convent of the Transfiguration, 495 Albion Ave, Glendale, OH (near Ruth’s home) for the afternoon sessions which are open to non-members. Please feel free to bring guests.

2-4pm --- Apostolic Visitation of Women’s Communities: The Church’s Oppression of all Women                                  
Panelists: Louise Akers, SC, Beth Rindler, SFP, Diann Neu, WATER, and Donna Quinn, OP

4:15-4:45pm --- Preview of an Intergenerational Dialogue --- Facilitated

5pm --- Liturgy

6pm --- Potluck Dinner at Ruth’s home: 985 Forest Ave, Glendale

7:30-9pm --- Intergenerational Dialogue facilitated by Kate Childs Graham, Erin Sainz Hanna, and Susan Farrell

Sunday, 9/13
9am – 12pm at Ruth’s home

  • Co-coordinator’s report
  • Treasurer’s report
  • Finalizing our two social actions
  • New Business

See PDF version for printing
EVENTS: ARCHIVES
 
W-WC Celebrates 25 years of Catholic Feminist Ministries
 
Speeches and Images
 
from August 17-19, 2007 - Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago
 
 
  Article on feminist catholicism:
   
 
An excerpt from Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's article: “We Are Church—A Kindom of Priests”.
Introduction by Mary E. Hunt
To view text:
Women-Church Convergence's Strategic Planning Meeting
at Virginia Episcopal Seminary, Alexandria, VA
Oct. 7-9, 2005

W-CC Strategic Planning Meeting

W-CC Strategic Planning Meeting

July 2005: Women-Church Convergence: Witness to Women's Ordinations

May 2004: Women-Church Convergence

November 2003: Women-Church Liturgy

May 2003: W-CC at Critical Mass

On July 25, 2005, nine Roman Catholic women were ordained deacons and priests by three women bishops.
(Link to article) (Link to video clip) (Link to more images)

Victoria Rue (center) and family
Victoria Rue, a member of Women-Church, was ordained a priest.

On May 15, 2004, a coalition of Catholic women's organizations met in Cincinnati to discuss "Women, Religion and Justice." A panel discussion included Louise  Akers, SC, Virginia Froehle, RSM, Mary E. Hunt, WATER. See video clips from this panel. Read an article by Mary E. Hunt.


Women-Church of N.Va. celebrates a Thanksgiving liturgy in Nov. 2003
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Women-Church Convergence at Critical Mass
May, 2003 at Oakland, California
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