Friends of the Campaign for the
Ordination of Women
in the Roman Catholic Church
Please, become one of our 'Friends' and
support us regularly!
Enrol yourself as a
‘Friend’. Though donations are your privilege, of course, we ask
‘Friends’ to give us at least £ 60 or more a year (= $ 100,
€ 100) if they can do so. This works out at £ 5 (= $ 8, € 8) a
month.
By becoming a Friend, you join us in a real partnership that
helps us build up an electronic Internet Library that will substantially
advance the cause of the ordination of women in the Catholic Church and in
other Christian Churches.
We are talking about real PARTNERSHIP and NETWORKING!
Present number of enrolled
‘Friends’ - Oct 2006
UK/Ireland
Holland/Belgium
USA/Canada
Other countries
Total
144
19
5
2
170
We urgently need more
‘Friends’ - please, join!
How do you enrol as a Friend?
Step 1. Send a short email to Jackie Clackson saying
you would like to become a ‘Friend’.
[To avoid spam, the email address is
not-clickable. Copy the address to your Outlook Express, please.]
Step 2. If possible, give us a donation.
You can do so in the
following way:
Using our own safe
credit card facility. Credit card donations through our site are handled by
two reputable firms: SecureTrading and the NatWest Bank. It
accepts donations in £, €, and $ (U.S.,
Australian and Canadian). Click on donation button
below.
How do
you benefit from being a Friend?
1.
You share in our work as a real
partner
We cannot all do the same thing. Some need to plan, to give academic
advice, to research, to photocopy texts in university libraries, to coordinate
the work. Others need to scan, to proofread, to edit, to transfer text into
HTML format and insert internal and external links. Others again need to
translate into the key languages spoken in our Church. Last not least, some
provide the financial backing through which the basic costs for all this can be
met.
By your regular donation you will ensure that our campaign will
maintain and increase its efficiency.
2. You become a
member of CIRCLES
CIRCLES is an international network of women and men dedicated to
reform in the Church. It offers its members the opportunity to be involved in a
non-stop, world-wide, multi-sided interaction over the internet:
- sharing valuable insights and experiences
- planning effective action on local level
- pooling available information
- linking isolated efforts into wider networks
- giving mutual support and, where needed, healing.
CIRCLES runs four forums on which discussion will be going on day
and night. They cover:
- Notice Board. Here members can
publish information on recent developments, upcoming events, reports.
- Sharing & Exchange. This is for
sharing experiences and discussing their implications, suggesting plans,
requesting cooperation for specific projects, asking any question that seems
relevant. General, or one-to-one, advice will be offered here by experienced
counsellors.
- Congress. Forum for intense exchange
of views on select topics.
- Vocation Support. This forum is
especially reserved for women called to the priestly ministry.
Each forum has a chatroom attached to it in which special-interest
groups can meet at specific times of the week. The chatrooms will be open all
the time, of course, so that members and guests can discuss matters "live" at
times of their own choosing -- or just wander in and chat!
3. We will send
you our regular electronic Newsletter
Through this we update you regarding new material published on our
website and about other important developments relating to women priests.
4. Last not
least, you will be part of our network of prayer
From the beginning we have always been convinced that our action in
the Church will only be fruitful if it is carried by prayer.
Every week, on Mondays at 12.00 noon UK time, we celebrate a team
eucharist in which we reflect on Sacred Scripture, break the bread and remember
our friends and contacts world wide.
enrol as a friend