Women, make your presence in the Church known by your absence.
“Not ripe”...“No room for positive decision”...“Niche issue”...“Rushing… is not the way to promote women today”...“Further study is needed” ...“More maturation is needed”...“A step by step approach”...“When the time is right”
Sound familiar? These are headlines from the past month of the Synod on Synodality. The same tired excuses to continue to keep women out of ordained ministry.
We will no longer wait until ordained men decide the time is right.
We are calling on the women of the church to join us in striking from sexism by withholding time, labor, and financial resources from the church during Lent 2025.
OUR MISSION
A project of the Women’s Ordination Conference, Catholic Women Strike seeks to remove all barriers to ministry and governance—including Holy Orders—for women and people of all genders, through withholding women’s time, labor, and resources from the Catholic Church for the duration of Lent 2025.
“If women do not feel comfortable in the church, we have failed.”
— Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich
