Kate McElwee is the executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference, a grassroots-driven movement that promotes activism, dialogue and prayerful witness to call for women's ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church. She is married to NCR news editor Joshua McElwee.
The October 2023 Synod of Bishops should include the voices of women who have discerned a sincere call to the Catholic priesthood, says women's ordination advocate Kate McElwee.
Pope Francis' 10-year record on women in church management, ministry and even ordination is not the fireworks of change many pray for, but there has been movement, says the executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference.
NCR's Michael Sean Winters inferred that the Women's Ordination Conference might impose an American "activist" agenda onto the synodal process. I ask simply that we are granted the respect of encounter before we are dismissed.
Book Review: Jill Peterfeso's study of the womenpriests movement assesses the complicated interrogation of patriarchal inheritance, Catholic identity and feminism.
Speakers at the recent Voices of Faith event articulated what is true for millions: We will no longer spend our valuable time waiting patiently for changes in imperialistic church policies that dehumanize and endanger women.
