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September 21, 2009

For Immediate Release

Contacts: Susan Farrell 908-753-4636
Donna Quinn 708-974-4220
Carolyn Kellogg 415-847-2076

Women's Coalition Connects The Apostolic Visitation of U.S. Women Religious to the Vatican's Oppression of All Women

Cincinnati: Women-Church Convergence, a Catholic-rooted Coalition of 27 groups of women begun in 1983 met with 80 interested women and men on September 12, 2009 to discuss the issue of the recent Apostolic Visitation and how this oppresses all women.

A Panel of four presented their insights on this topic: Louise Akers a member of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Donna Quinn Co-Ordinator of the National Coalition of American Nuns, Beth Rindler a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor and Diann Neu Co-Ordinator of Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER).

The theme of the Day was presented by Louise in a quote of Catherine of Siena - a Saint and Doctor of the Church who lived in the fourteenth century: "Cry as if you have a million voices, it is silence that kills the world." Louise Akers continued her story with Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati who has banned her from any teaching activity in the Archdiocese due to her support of women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. She will not in conscience change her position on this issue. Donna Quinn spoke of the four issues used against women by Vatican Church but which can also be used by women to create a Church for Our Daughters. These four are Ordination of Women, Inclusive Language in spoken and written word, Women's Reproductive Health Issues and Women's Right to Vote in the Church.

After Beth Rindler told her story of persecution by the Church in Detroit Diann Neu lifted up and thanked Women Religious for their courageous stands against the continued gender discrimination by Vatican Church. The overflowing room of participants left this discussion with new insights and a resolve never to give up, continuing to lift up our voices against the violence of gender discrimination and to create a Church which welcomes all people equally.

  
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