Sign up now for Lay-led Synodal Assembly to be held in Rome in October 2023

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I am one of the speakers in this  lay-led assembly addressing human and spiritual rights in the Church and world.

My topic will highlight some of the ways Roman Catholic Women Priests are redefining ministry renewing sacramental rites and living gospel equality in inclusive ministries and communities now.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE EMERGING CATHOLIC CHURCH Your lay-led Synodal Assembly SPIRIT UNBOUNDED, Winging her Way    Human Rights in the Emerging Catholic Church News 2           5th Sept, 2023 What's HRECC? Share HERE. MARTHA MUSONZA HOLMAN Live in Bristol, 13 - 14 October ALL INFO and BOOKING 8 - 14 Oct HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE EMERGING CATHOLIC CHURCH 8 - 14 Oct online all week 13 - 14 Oct live, in-person and online, Rome IT & Bristol UK. Does our institutional Church seem to have much - if any - understanding of the complexities of your life and mine? Of how we, our families and friends truly live? “The People of God… do not believe and in many cases do not practice what the magisterium teaches on women, gay rights, obedience, infallibility, human sexuality, contraception, abortion, governance…..” Dr. Mary McAleese, keynote speaker in Rome alongside Sr. Joan Chittister. Pope Francis brings us the Synod on Synodality in the XVIth Synod in Rome this October. Alongside, we offer you this ecumenical festival of our lay-led Synodal Assembly, with 110+ stories of our complex lives. And our human rights. Penelope Middelboe and her husband Jon have worked for decades in media production. They began to realise, as Voice after Voice of our speakers below thanked us for inviting and recording them, that our 110+ shared HRECC stories are groundbreaking. Unprecedented.  The meaning of Synod is literally, walking together. This is the first lay-led, technologically enabled, worldwide Assembly of its kind.   A listening one. Supported by over 40 reforming and advising Companion organisations, Spirit Unbounded HRECC is being put together and driven by a tiny handful of volunteers. All of us strive for a safe, just and welcoming church. We've no funds. Only our faith in our beloved Holy Spirit, who seems to be opening so many doors to us. We work all hours, hours that should belong to our families and loved ones, to bring you this astounding ecumenical festival of our lived lives as the 99%+ of our Church, in October.   We continue to pray with Pope Francis, who, in April 2021 proposed that we pray for human rights defenders, saying "Defending fundamental human rights takes courage and determination."   Armando Márquez, Co-secretario de SICSAL, El Salvador    AMONGST OUR INSPIRING 110+ VOICES MARK GUEVARRA in 2018 joined the 100+ Catholic Church workers and teachers in Canada and the USA fired by their employer, the Church. Mark loved being a lay minister. He started an LGBTQ+ prayer group. He was sacked. How do we change the Church's laws, teachings and structures so that our LGBTQ+ siblings can feel safe? Only "a synodal heart," says Mark, will do. Dr. KOCHURANI ABRAHAM was a nun for two decades before becoming a lay feminist theologian. She works to empower the thousands of nuns in India endangered by the spiritual and sexual abuse of clericalism. Courageous whistleblowers, below, have come under unconscionable pressures. "Jesus Christ was a liberator", says Kochurani, "because he dared to ask critical questions" of a corrupt establishment. BRIAN DEVLIN is a priest, a Church whistleblower, an author and a speaker about power abuse in Catholicism. His book, Cardinal Sin, about his and four fellow survivors' journey to unmask the predator Cardinal Keith O'Brien, shows a deeply humane and caring concern for sufferers, as well as a trenchant analysis for structural change in the Church. ‘The celibate, single sex priesthood needs to be dismantled', he says. He describes himself as a Collapsed Catholic. Read his inspiring article this week in the Synodal Times here about "reform-minded Catholics who will not sit quietly and allow this haughty, out of touch, and utterly compromised patrimony to tell us what authentic Church is." MARTHA MUSONZA HOLMAN aged twelve, wanted so badly to continue her education that her father sold his bed to pay the fees.  When, as a mother of two young sons, she was arrested and beaten up by Mugabe's government, she made the difficult decision to come to the UK, leaving her boys with her father.  Now settled in Wales with her husband David, she runs their Love Zimbabwe charity with the help of her eldest son and village trustees in her home, Chinamhora. Their focus is on health, food, education and sanitation, and the support of disabled children. Come to Bristol. Be privileged to meet her and David and hear first-hand about women, power and Zimbabwe. FULL LIST of our amazing worldwide 110+ synodal VOICES. ALL INFO 8 - 14 Oct