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| Role
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Ideas that emerged from statements
such as:
- In what ways might we honour women?
- In what ways might we promote gender equity?
- In what ways might we celebrate human strengths?
- In what ways might we include the talents of all?
- Define or redefine women's role
- Need clear direction, job descriptions for lay involvement
- Equality for all
- Married priest and wife priest
- Parish ministers allowed to do parish ministry - preside at marriages and baptisms
- Role of women must change
- Boundaries for Sisters should be expanded. They feel marginalized.
- Sisters need to be honoured
- Women could be deacons
- More democracy applied at decision making and power
- Sisters need to be allowed to administer all sacraments
- Women to become priests
- Pay equity for women
- Think new
- Acknowledge women's role
- Our Church needs "Motherhood"
- Work toward a balance in all areas, including women and marginalized people (gays and lesbians included)
- Involve women in major decision making of Church
- Study the history of women in our Church
- Learn about Mary, our Mother
- Hold celebrations of women
- Pay our personnel a just/living wage
- Paid professional lay ministers
- Couples in ministry would work
- More church compassion for divorcees. Legal divorce should be legal. Allow remarriage in church
- Birth control stance should be reviewed
- Operate under God's laws, not Church laws
- Feminists listen to the Voice of God
- Work to put an end to children/women being prostituted on the streets
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