#GodSaysNow Campaign

THE CALL FOR INTEGRITY IN THE SYNOD PROCESS

The role of women in the Roman Catholic Church emerged from the Synod on Synodality as one of the most prominent issues to be discerned. However, for a proper discernment to take place, the Church must gather all the relevant information on the topic so that it can be brought into the Church's prayer. As a matter of integrity of process, the #GodSaysNow campaign calls for the inclusion of three critical sources of data that are thus far missing from the discernment on the role of women: 

1. The history of women's ordination. This history has been obfuscated and suppressed so that most people, including bishops, are unaware of the Church's true tradition. Reputable scholars have demonstrated that women were ordained until the 13th century, including as priests, deacons and bishops.
   
   
2. The direct experience of women from around the world who are called to be priests. These voices are some of the most marginalized in the Church. The women who bear the brunt of the teaching of exclusion from priesthood must be given the space and authority to speak about their experience. 
   
   
3. Transparency of where all vowed religious and ordained stand on the issue. In addition to the many millions of lay people who believe women are called to serve as priests, there are thousands of sisters, brothers, deacons, priests, bishops and cardinals who believe, but they are silent/silenced. Their position on the issue must be made clear for the entire Church to see.

THE CAMPAIGN GOAL
While the Church has invested great resources into claiming priesthood for women is closed, the synod has revealed it isn't (see paragraph 64 in the document Enlarge the Space of Your Tent). It never was. The goal of the #GodSaysNow campaign is to make the issue of women's ordination to priesthood issue impossible for the bishops to ignore. There are literally hundreds of millions of people across the world who believe women should serve as priests. What if we all made our voices heard?
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