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See: http://ncronline.org/blogs/grace-margins/women-priests-demonstrate-profound-faithfulness-god
www.associationofromancatholicwomenpriests.org
www.romancatholicwomenpriests.org
http://bridgetmarys.blogspot.com/
http://www.womensordination.org/
2 Westmill Ln., Palm Coast FREE
"Pink Smoke Over the Vatican," the award-winning documentary about the struggle for justice and equality for women in the Roman Catholic Church -- and how it affects women worldwide -- will be shown on Saturday Nov., 9, 3:00 – 5:00 at 2 Westmill Ln., Palm Coast, Fl. Questions and discussion will follow.
The film's title came from Women's Ordination Conference (WOC) activists who burned Pink Smoke instead of the Vatican's symbolic white smoke before Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope. The WOC activists were highlighting the lack of women in the papal election process and the
The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church is seen by many as a keystone to the empowerment of women worldwide. The women interviewed in Pink Smoke have made the connections between sexism in the Roman Catholic Church and discrimination and violence toward women and children in our world. These concerns include traditional prejudice, education, employment, female genital mutilation, hunger, poverty, and reproductive safety.
In "Pink Smoke Over the Vatican" filmmaker Jules Hart tells the story of the women priest movement in the Roman Catholic Church. “It is not every day that you meet people who give up everything for what they believe in,” says Hart, who is not Catholic, about the women priests and supporters who inspired her to make this film. Women who are ordained -- and their supporters -- are not only excommunicated by the
The film chronicles the history of the women's ordination movement in the Roman Catholic Church, beginning with the secret ordination of Ludmila Javorova in 1970 during
The film features interviews with some of the women who claim to have been ordained in the same line of apostolic succession that male priests and bishops also claim. It includes interviews with Catholic theologian Dorothy Irvin whose work in the early Church period has drawn attention to tombstones, frescoes, catacombs and mosaics documenting women's ministries as deacons, priests and bishops.
Other prominent women who have not been ordained also are interviewed. Commentary by Maryknoll priest Father Roy Bourgeois on the women priest movement and the sacrifices he made for supporting it give a male priest’s perspective on gender injustice within the Church. Also included are the perspectives of the spokesman for the
People who have seen Pink Smoke say that it is a grassroots prophetic story that speaks truth to power.
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