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Witnesses
Fr. James Casciotti, S.J.
Pastor, St. Ignatius Church, Baltimore, Maryland
June 2, 2021
“The time has come to embrace and empower the gifts of women in the leadership, governance and sacramental ministry of the Church. Women as deacons would be role models for other women and would attract men and women to walk with us. We would be especially enriched with the wisdom and insights women could bring to preaching during the Liturgy.”
Fr. James Casciotti, S.J., is the pastor of St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore, Maryland.
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“I know that women are being called by the Holy Spirit and women are living diakonia in creative, ordinary ways today. Now, as a mother of a toddler girl, I want to discern with the Church on how to make way for her to discern her own future calling, should the Spirit call her.”
Ana López
Spiritual Director and Theology Teacher, Los Angeles, CA
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“If women were able to serve as deacons, it would magnify the grace and love of God and make it more widely available.”
Judith Oberhauser
Retired Chaplain, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN
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“I was not raised Catholic but converted in my adult life. As a child, Mother Mary would appear to me often…I believe Mary appearing to me as a child who knew nothing about the Catholic Church was more than her wanting me to find Christ through the Church. I believe she came to me because I was meant to do more for the Church.”
Christina Kovar
Adult Faith Formation Leader, Chicago, IL
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