We Are Church Intl.

We Are Church and Friends Walk with the Synod

We Are Church proclaims a community of equals where "there is  neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3:28).

This is our journey with our many friends into the Synod on Synodality.

Vaticanelle

First performed thirty years ago in the wake of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis this comedy imagines a Church where authority and governance is exclusively female.  Two men, advocating equality, plead for ordination.

Muttikan

Vaticanelle was originally produced in German and called 'Muttikan',  a play on the word 'Vatican'.

International meeting of We Are Church

11 to 14 October 2024
  (Representatives of 20 countries 
met in Rome and online)
at Casa Maria Immacolata
Via Enzio 28
Prati, Roma 00192

62 years after the opening of the Vatican Council

We Are Church early arrivals join in the WOC vigil

Saturday, 12th October 2024

We were out and about around the Synod Hall to greet and talk with synod delegates. 

Angelus

We Are Church joined pilgrims in St Peter's Square for the Angelus with Pope Francis

Sunday,
 13 October 2024

Our Five Goals

We updated our Five Goals for reform 
in the Church

Sunday 13 October 2024

Read the Goals

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Roman Catholic Women Priests

ARCWP ordained Presbyters and Deacons from Spain, France and U.S. in Historic Ordination in Rome on October 17, 2024 to foster Gender Equality in Ordained Ministry in a Church for Everyone

17 October 2024

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Synod 2024: Theological and Pastoral Forum - 9th October 2024

The Role and Authority of the Bishop in a Synodal Church

Read a report of the forum

Cardinal Mario Grech invites all to contribute to the 10 Working Groups

News from Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod!  

The People of God are invited to actively contribute to the work of the ten Synod Study Groups until June 2025. 

 "They are called to remain open to a wider participation, that of the entire people of God." Find out more:
[https://shorturl.at/aoq49]

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Hopes for Synod 2024

with

Philomena Mwaura

AFRICA

Kevin Liston

OCEANIA

Kate McElwee

NORTH AMERICA

Lula Ramires

SOUTH 
AMERICA

Virginia Saldanha

ASIA

Martin Schockenhoff

EUROPE

Press release and quotes

Now Available
on Women's Ordination Conference
YouTube Channel 

Watch

LISTEN

In the first week of October the Young CWC Group will be in Rome for the start of the synodal conference. We will host our own event on the 3rd of October. We  aim to create a Sanctuary or Temple of Listening, an immersive space to listen, pray with, and be transformed by the testimonies of women in the church. Inspired by the biblical call used by synod architects to “enlarge the space of your tent,” we will create a “tent-like” space to present women’s stories

Phoebe
Junia (and Andronicus)
Women of the Roman Church (Priscilla, Mary, Junia, Tryphaena and Tryphosa, Persis and Rufus' mother)
Thecla
Samaritan Woman
Mary of Magdala

Catholic Women's Council

The synod live

Follow the public sessions through VaticanNews broadcasts.
TEXTS, PHOTOS, SOCIAL POSTS, VIDEOS and much more material are available in this google drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19-_sdngx3URQi_Hy3dD8AS3d0OGVaMAl?usp=sharing

The Preparatory Meditations

Dachs-Bau

For the Voice 
of Young People 
in the Synod

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FutureChurch

This October, FutureChurch will be traveling to the Synod to continue our advocacy to expand the Lectionary to include Mary Magdalene and some 30 other biblical women on Sundays.

While in Rome we will:

  • Deliver our open letter asking that all of John 20:1-18 be proclaimed on Easter Sunday to the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops
  • Host a Mary Magdalene celebration in honor of all women hidden by the lectionary
  • Bring the art of Mary Magdalene of scripture to Synod delegates and the people of Rome through prayer cards, postcards, banners
  • Engage in direct service with vulnerable women and members of the LGBTQ+ community
  • Collaborate with friends and partners in the church reform movement

Why Not Me?

On Friday, October 4th 
Women's Ordination Conference 
walked with their international partners 
toward the synod hall with the message: 
“Why not me?”, inspired by the Comite de la Jupe. 
We invite you to join us in the global action through local 

Synod 2024: Theological and Pastoral Forum - 16th October 2024

Mutual Relationship Local-Universal Church

Synod 2024: Theological and Pastoral Forum - 16th October 2024

The Exercise of the Primacy and the Synod of Bishops

A supporter of We Are Church asks a pertinent question at 1 hour 53 minutes (last question).

In Rome 2023

We Are Church and friends were in Rome during the 2023 session of the Synod.   

Activities

Continental Meetings
February 2023

We Are Church was pleased to be represented at many continental meetings.  Here we present our presence in Prague

Activities

Helene Jeppesen-Spuhler

Helena is a Voting participant from Switzerland in the Synod 2023 & 2024.  She kindly shared her experience of the Synod on Synodality with We Are Church and friends and answered questions afterwards. 

Report from the evening

In Prague, during the European Continental Meeting, Colm Holmes spoke about the aspirations of We Are Church for the Synods in 2023 and 2024