In her paper Anne Soupa reaches the conclusion:
I observe that women are confronted by an institution reluctant to welcome them, perhaps even more so today than yesterday, but that they refuse to remain silent.
They speak out, as if their own Church had exfiltrated them into the world…
Consequently, reforming the Church, in the current context, may not happen from within, but from without. This is the message I bring to you this evening.
Yes, women are speaking out. While remaining within the Church, the great Church of Christ whose boundaries no one can define, women, through their vitality, are already proclaiming the Good News of salvation in countless ways.
And the world desperately needs it. So, let's get to work!
Read her paper given at a We Are Church Seminar on 27 May 2026