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Truth shall spring out of the earth,
and justice shall look down from heaven...
                                                                                  Psalm 85:11

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Dear Friend,


In this last week of Advent, we not only celebrate the birth of the Savior, but also Mary his mother who schooled her child in the Hebrew tradition of loving and raising up the lowly. Mary used her voice to say yes.  

 

Your donations and memberships help FutureChurch's work to retrieve the memory of early women leaders and to restore the tradition of female deacons in our church.

 

Todays Catholic women are also saying yes but are silenced instead of welcomed in our churches. Stories of female biblical leaders are omitted or made optional in our lectionary and women, indeed all lay people, have been forbidden to preach at Mass even though canon law allows it.

 

Our new Women and the Word: End the silencing of Catholic Women kit is a free download that includes resources and concrete actions you can take to end the silencing of Catholic women in your faith community.

 

Our Women Office Holders in the Early Church CD and presenter's guide remains one of our best selling resources and educates about significant archaeological evidence for women leaders in ancient Christianity .

 

Please read "Eight Reasons to restore the female diaconate in the Catholic Church" and sign or distribute paper or e-postcards asking Cardinal Levada to open the permanent diaconate to women and end the centuries long silencing of women.

 

We appreciate your willingness to advocate for these needed changes in our Church! Please donate generously so we can continue our ending the silencing of Catholic women. 

 

Gratefully,

Sister Christine Schenk, csj

Executive Director 

    

   
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