We Are Church Intl.

HOPES FOR SYNOD 2024: 6 CONTINENTS

3rd October 2024 at 13.00 CEST
via Zoom
with

AFRICA

Philomena Mwaura

CWC Catholic Women’s Council

AUSTRALIA

Kevin Liston

ACCCR Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform

NORTH AMERICA

Kate McElwee

WOC 
Women’s Ordination Conference

SOUTH 
AMERICA

Lula Ramires

Group for Pastoral Action on Diversity

ASIA

Virginia Saldanha

CWC Catholic Women’s Council

EUROPE

Martin Schockenhoff

WAC We Are Church 

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We Are Church and friends will be in Rome for the Synod 

International meeting - 11 to 14 October 2024   (Members only)

Informal meeting with Synod delegates - noon, 12 October

Vaticanelle - 15.00, 12 October - Casa Maria Immacolata

Angelus with Pope Francis - noon, 13 October - St Peter's Square

Recording video of our Five Aims - 13:00, 13 October  - various locations

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FutureChurch - 6pm, 3 October
Celebrating Mary Magdalene 
and other women hidden by the Lectionary
Caravita, Via del Caravita 7 

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Women's Ordination Conference
many events
many locations

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A Constitution for the Catholic Church

Dr. Luca Badini Confalonieri   
Followed by a dialogue with Fr. Helmut Schüller and a Q & A

ZOOM 14.00 – 15.30hrs CEST 
Saturday 7th of September 2024

Dr. Luca Badini Confalonieri is the Director of Research of the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research (WICR) in London. In September 2022 WICR published a “Proposed Constitution for theCatholic Church”, which builds on and develops work done in the 1990’s. It aims at suggesting one possible way to integrate commonly proposed reforms into a legal framework that is coherent, realistic, as well as compatible with biblical studies, theological research, and ecumenical dialogues

Fr. Helmut Schüller is the founder of the Austrian Priests Initiative who for 2 decades have worked for reforms in the Catholic Church. He has worked tirelessly organizing priests to resist exclusionary church policies and create churches where power is shared and Catholics participate equally, no matter one’s gender, marital status or sexual orientation.

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Helene Jeppesen-Spuhler

Helena is a Voting participant from Switzerland in the Synod 2023 & 2024.  She kindly shared her experience of the Synod on Synodality with We Are Church and friends and answered questions afterwards. 

Report from the evening

Eucharist - Thanksgiving

For several decades many in the We Are Church movement have met regularly to celebrate the Eucharist together in our homes and at other gatherings. The arrival of the Covid pandemic led to a switch early in 2020 to holding these Eucharists online using ZOOM.

Celebrating ZOOM Eucharists has brought We Are Church closer together as a movement.

We have gathered some of the texts we have used for these Eucharists which we hope may encourage others to organise a house Eucharist or ZOOM Eucharist with a group of friends.

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We celebrate monthly Eucharists
with international participants
on Saturdays at 16.30 hrs
Central European Time

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Foundation Documents

Roman Declaration

Agreed in Rome on 
25 November 1996 
by We Are Church representatives 
from 10 countries

Manifesto

Agreed in Rome on 
12 October 1997

Coordinating Team

Christiane Bascou
France

Jamie Manson 
USA

Martin Schockenhoff
Germany

Ashik Naz Khokhar
Pakistan

Jean-Pierre Schmitz
France

Mary Morrissey
Ireland
Treasurer

Valerie Stroud
England
Communications

Martha Heizer
Austria
Vice-Chair 

Colm Holmes
Ireland
Chairperson

Our History

We are committed to the renewal of the Roman Catholic Church based on the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and the theological spirit developed from it.

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Members

We Are Church International is a network of independent and autonomous groups, each representing a different culture where Catholic Christians are endeavouring to live out the message of Jesus Christ.

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Application for Membership

We Are Church International does not have individual members.

Membership is open to local groups that base their work on all the goals stated in the preamble and regard the objectives in the Roman manifesto as well as these working guidelines and the membership fee as binding.

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