(Women Priests Celebrating Jubilee Year 2000 - 2001.
Tell me what some members of The Conclave should look like?
This is what some members of The Conclave should look like!)
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome Sweet Sophia Spirit of God! Be With All of Us!
As The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, we recall Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia in 2015. Rather than leaving the church, in the same city, Our Women Priests led the church by consecrating three women bishops in Apostolic Succession while forever extending the meaning of and re-defining The City of Brotherly Love under the nose of Dear Pope Francis.
(Women Priests Movement during Pope Francis’ visit. Philadelphia 2015)
Now in 2025, we your Easter People come to you grateful for the life of Pope Francis, his works and witness inspiring millions of people throughout the world. However, his legacy is filled with contradictions on several key issues including the pedophile scandal, mixed messages about all women and still excluding women called from ordained ministry and LBGTIQA people that continues to cause serious harm and violence. When challengers pressed forward about why the policies cannot be changed? Those asking were met with shaming messages insisting that making such reforms would cause schism. All part of the patriarchal grand plan of blaming the survivors while helping to provide theological justification for not holding the perpetrators accountable. With more people having left the church than still going, who are they so afraid of losing?
(Janice Severe-Duszynska & Donna Panero resisting the police in Rome. 2000-2001)
Even though, Francis has been the most progressive pope yet, the video images of his funeral document Synodalityis a current failure. The unfolding of the wake and funeral presented an active crime scene that the entire world was invited to complicitly witness. The reporters normalized the medieval displays of long parades of men in dresses, with exquisite lace and fancy hats taking their seats at the funeral. While only one-woman reader and a couple of women reading intercessory prayers represented half of humankind. No one said, “What is wrong with this picture?”
(Pope Francis. Philadelphia. 2015)
Dear Sweet Sophia, I thought I saw you showing your continually active, loving, powerful self in the storybook ending to Francis’ life. I imagined You at work, allowing Francis to journey through all Holy Week and even blessing people on Easter Sunday to die early Easter Monday morning. I wanted to believe that was no mere coincidence. I felt certain you were active during the last week of Francis’ life. Conversely, what was on display and what was absent, during the days of wake and funeral, makes me wonder where you were? Sophia, the world cannot afford for you to be missing in action right now!
Ruach, in your mighty wind, You once swept over the face of chaos at the cosmic burst of creation and continuing to do so in your Primary Revelation of nature today! We ask that you address and reveal your mighty winds of transformative, loving, powerful, active self throughout All the events of intrigue and fascination at the Vatican. Use the energetic attention of so many people worldwide for total Creative Conclave conversion. Normalizing a model of a small electorate that excludes half of humanity is no longer viable. In this graced moment of in-between stop the assumption of only 133 male-only Cardinals choosing a leader for more than One Billion people. Sophia Spirit, we ask you to totally reorder the decision-making gatherings in Rome! We ask for your dynamic presence every step of this way! Sophia, You once sent your strong mighty wind into an upper room filled with scared disciples at Pentecost. Act again, before those fragile men enter The Sistine Chapel! We do not accept this process must proceed the way it has always been done. We know You can make All things New! Make real Synodality happen, Now!
(Women Priests. Synodality 2023. Rome
Mary Theresa Streck ARCWP , Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP.If only they were welcome inside The Conclave!)
Furthermore, Sophia Spirit, use this opportune time of the world’s attention to let your steadfast womb-love, peace, and justice reign! We ask you to manifest a full Metanoia by coalescing humanity away from the dangerous trajectory we have been on. Roll the stones of collective hard heartedness away! We ask for protection from evil actors who may believe we are distracted by the events in Rome from trying to take advantage. Instead, give us an abundance of Recognition Events that turn white eggs to red before the current Caesars of this world! Move us into your larger mind and heart! Bring about an era of love and realized concern for all our neighbors including the most marginalized as we return to protecting Mother Earth, Our Home. Arise, amongst your people, strengthening right relationships from individual, to community, country to the world! Act Now, Sweet Sophia Spirit!
(Janice Severe-Duszynska carrying an envelope with information about our movement and a copy of dvd Pink Smoke. Christina Moreira provided the contact in the Vatican. Both Janice and Christina hand- delivered the letter to a Monsignor in the Vatican who agreed to share this information with the Pope in 2016. )
Forever grateful for Mary Magdalene’s Easter report and surrounded by Our Cloud of Witnesses, we invoke your Alchemical Presence during this Sacred Easter season of Resurrection, Christ is Risen Indeed, Alleluia, therefore we boldly await pink smoke!
May it be so! May it be so! May it be so! Jubilate 2024 – 2025!
(Karen Kerrigan. Orans Posture. In front of The Tomb of Saint Peter. St. Peter’s Basilica. 2002)
Prayer written by Karen Kerrigan ARCWP. April 27, 2025.
(Janice Severe-Duszynska ARCWP. “Die-in Demonstration. Philadelphia 2015
“They thought they could bury us. They did not realize we were seeds!” Watch video of Janice being interviewed by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman. Link below.)
(Source: Democracy Now Video from 2015. Pope Francis and The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests in Philadelphia) https://www.democracynow.org/
Photos Courtesy of Diane Dougherty ARCWP & Brigid Mary Meehan ARCWP
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