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Father Anne | 503-568-2393
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Bio

Father Anne was ordained on October 16, 2021 in Albuquerque, NM through the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests and is now an independent priest. She has a deep love of the Society of Jesus and Ignatian spirituality, which blossomed over twelve years of ministry with Jesuits. She earned a Master of Divinity from Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA, and has worked in several parishes in the Jesuits West Province. In addition to her formation and work in the Roman Catholic Church, Father Anne has a Master’s degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from San Diego State University, and 24 years of experience in strategic communications. She harnesses the entirety of her background to work for a priesthood that welcomes women. While many have walked away from the Roman Catholic Church, Father Anne obeys the call of the Holy Spirit to work with God on the project of equality in one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

Past tour dates

12/6/2022 Sisters of the Sacred Heart High School
11/17/2022 University of San Francisco
11/02/2022 College of Wooster
10/27/2022 Loyola University Maryland
10/26/2022 Villanova University

Father Anne hopes to tour extensively in 2023 #FatherAnneInTheVan

Noteworthy

12/3/2022 | BBC documentary |
The Women Fighting to Be Priests
6/22/2021 | The New Yorker |
The Women Who Want to be Priests

MEDIA

For 50 years women have been working for equality in the Roman Catholic Church. We are in a new moment that can bring about change.

Fast facts

Pope Francis launched a worldwide listening process that runs from October 2021 through October 2024.
The synod process has already revealed the near universal call from lay people for women's leadership in the Church, including the ordination of women as deacons and priests.
Thousands of priests, deacons, vowed religious and bishops believe that women should be ordained to the priesthood, but they are remaining silent due most likely to institutional pressures.
There is an ever-growing body of significant historical and archeological evidence that women served in ordained roles including priests, deacons and bishops in the early Church.

All of this amounts to a new historical moment where transformation is possible in the Roman Catholic Church.

Other facts

The Roman Catholic Church is one of the most powerful institutions in the world. It is the largest nongovernmental provider of healthcare and education in the world, one of the largest landowners, and the Holy See participates in the UN as a permanent observer state. Whether you are Catholic or not, you are affected by the exclusion of women from priesthood.
The ordination of a woman is considered a crime as severe as the sexual abuse of a child by a priest. While women ordained are automatically excommunicated, the male priests who have abused children are not.
John Paul II published Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in 1994, claiming that the issue of women's ordination was "closed." He severely punished any who spoke out. Pope Benedict XVI upheld his position and way of proceeding. This has led to a hangover of fear for those in the institutional church who may want to speak their mind.
While Pope Francis has upheld the position of John Paul II, he has launched a process that has brought the support for the ordination of women to the fore.