Continuing the fifty-year conversation: When will the Roman Catholic Church accept women’s call to priesthood?

Sr. Martha Ann Kirk, a Women's Ordination Conference  Advisory Board member, will participate in the continuing conversation on women’s ordination in Detroit on May 22-24 at a 50th Anniversary celebration. She wrote “Gender, Gospel, and Global Justice” after attending the 2015 Women’s Ordination Worldwide Conference and shared a virtual presentation for the WOC 45th anniversary called “Prophetic Persistence.” Read about the 2016 Women’s Ordination Worldwide Conference and come be part of the conversation with Sr. Martha and others on this significant topic. Register for the conference here.

 In 1975, over 1,200 people, including many religious sisters, participated in the first Women’s Ordination Conference on Nov. 28-30 in Detroit. The conference was publicly endorsed by 49 women’s and men’s religious congregations, organizations, and individuals. Among them were four friends from Texas: Sister Dorothy Ettling, CCVI; Sister Martha Ann Kirk, CCVI; Sister Mary Walden, OSU; and Ada María Isasi-Díaz, a theologian. Afterward, Isasi-Díaz and Sister Yolanda Tarango, CCVI, collaborated to write Hispanic Women: Prophetic Voice in the Church.

 Please bring a brown bag lunch.

 For more information, contact Sr. Martha Kirk by email at kirk@uiwtx.edu.