This is the text of a talk given by Tina Beattie at a gathering of Andante - the European Alliance of Catholic Women's Organisations - at the Carmelite Monastery in Snagov, near Bucharest, on Thursday, 25th April, 2019 I am delighted to be back with this wonderful group of women, imagining a future in which
Editor Lucetta Scaraffia and her all-female editorial team have announced that they are suspending publication of the monthly women's magazine, Donne Chiesa Mondo (Women, Church, World) published by the official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Lucetta has been a good friend to Catholic Women Speak and a brave spokesperson for women in the Church. She contributed to our first book
February 2019 In the common perception abuses have transformed what used to be the most delicate expression of love, the caress – maternal, comforting, or as a farewell to the dying – into an expression in itself suspect and virtually obscene, thereby creating scandal, in addition to violence and pain. In this issue we
In October 2018, women from around the world gathered in Rome for events and activities organised by Catholic Women Speak. We recorded interviews with 14 of these women speaking about their vocations, their faith and their cultures and contexts. You can watch the videos here. https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PL-E5fYO4-QjOI6aBNnqMUzTVx0OMI6xce&layout=gallery
Sheila Pires of Radio Veritas South Africa interviewed Tina Beattie about CWS. You can listen to the interview here, starting at 7 mins. into the programme. We are telling stories, not spreading ideologies … If you self-identify as a Catholic woman, you are welcome in this space. … We’re
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY CATHOLIC WOMEN SPEAK AND VOICES OF FAITH (Il testo italiano—preghiamo clicare qui) We have read with unease the article “Migrants show the West the real face of motherhood, Vatican official says,” written by Elise Harris and published in Crux on November 11, 2018. As reported in the
We are happy to collaborate with our Italian sisters—Donne per la Chiesa— and with Women's Ordination Conference in writing a letter to those women who have been invited to participate in the forthcoming Synod on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment. There is widespread dismay among many Catholic women that, while this year members of
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE SIGNING THE LETTER TO POPE FRANCIS FROM CATHOLIC WOMEN Catholic Women Speak supports a broad and inclusive church that can accommodate a wide spectrum of Catholic beliefs and practices. Our members represent the diversity of the Catholic tradition in its many forms of expression, and we understand that women around the
CWS coordinator Tina Beattie did Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 27th August, when she spoke about the crisis that has been created by yet more evidence of sex abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic Church. You can listen to the broadcast at this link. For those who cannot listen
CWS member Rebecca Bratten Weiss has written a reflection on Pope Francis's call for prayer and penance for sex abuse in the Catholic Church. (Published in Patheos, 22 August, 2018) We, the laity, unordained women and men of the church, have been asked to pray and do penance for the grave crimes of the hierarchical
