CWS Supports Byseee Girls' School and Day Care Centre Catholic Women Speak is raising funds to support Byseee Girls' School and Day Care Centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Our initial aim was to raise £300 per month during
(Catholic Women Speak is a member of the Catholic Women's Council) The Catholic Women’s Council notes that Cardinal George Pell’s conviction for child sexual abuse has been overturned by the High Court of Australia, because the seven judges decided that full consideration of the evidence allowed for ‘a reasonable possibility that the offending had
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - SUNDAY, 8TH MARCH, 2020 VIGIL FOR WOMEN'S DIGNITY AND EQUALITY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL PIAZZA, 12.30 TO 1.30 PM Join us as we celebrate International Women's Day by campaigning for Women's Dignity and Equality in the Catholic Church. Wear bright
Once again, as bishops gather in Rome for the Synod on the Amazon, we discover that none of the women religious auditors has voting rights but one of the male religious auditors does. This is a clear example of discrimination against women on the basis of sex alone. If the Catholic hierarchy is serious
In our private Facebook group, members of Catholic Women Speak discuss topics of interest across the wide spectrum of Catholic life and faith, ranging from pastoral and personal insights and struggles to reflections on prayer and spirituality, and theological and ethical questions. Our membership includes women from many different backgrounds and cultures, including a
In July 2019 the Diocese of Dubrovnik in Croatia organised a Theology Summer School on the theme of "Theology and Plurality". They invited four tutors to give lectures and run workshops during the week—Professor Željko Tanjić of the University of Zagreb, Professor Carmelo Dotolo of the Pontifical University Urbaniana in Rome, Professor Pantelis Kalaitzidis
Tina Beattie has written a blog for Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (CTEWC) on the recent document produced by the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education - 'Male and female he created them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education': GENDER THEORY AND CATHOLIC EDUCATION - CTEWC BLOG
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
