2018 - 2019 Thematic events in Rome
2019: And You, Sister, What Do You Say?
In October 2019 another Bishops’ Synod gathered in Rome to discern the future of the Catholic Church in Amazonia. Women religious, who outnumber brothers almost 10 to 1 globally and whose female superiors have the same canonical status as male superiors, did not have the right to vote on the final documents. Some days before Voices of Faith invited experienced, committed and passionate women religious from across the world to share their dreams for the future of the Church they have dedicated their lives to. In their speeches they uncovered the structures that hold them back and discussed solutions to help shift the culture that still does not recognise women as equal in the Church.
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2018: Overcoming Silence. Women’s Voice in the Abuse Crisis
For the end of February 2019 Pope Francis invited to Rome Presidents of Bishops' Conferences from all over the world for the Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church. Believing that women's voices and open discussion are crucial to any credible efforts to stop and prevent abuse, three months before the Vatican summit Voices of Faith asked women experts, some of whom have personal experience of clerical abuse in the Catholic Church, to share their insights on the subject.
Prof. Cettina Militello
Associate professor at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Liturgy in Rome. She directs the Constanza Scelfo Institute for issues of the laity and women in the Church and holds the Chair of Woman and Christianity at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum.
Barbara Dorris
Executive Director in Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)
Dr Rocio Figueroa Alvear
Peruvian Theologian, Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Good Shepherd College in Auckland and an External Researcher at the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at Otago University, New Zealand.
Dr Doris Wagner Reisinger
Philosopher and theologian, author and Assistant Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and a Member of the Gender, Sex and Power Project at the Cushwa Center at Notre Dame University in Indiana.
