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Anthony Ruff, OSB
The New Roman Missal - the rest of the story

Listen to a Podcast of the January 10 presentation

 

NEW! Free downloadable kit: End the Silencing of Catholic Women

Provides goals, strategies and actions for Your Community and Diocese

Women Deacons Now!
Postcard initiative

Is the Vatican Opening Way for Women Deacons?

 

Father Louis J. Trivison Award

2011 Recipients

Dan and Sheila Daly

Co-Founders and former Co-Directors

of Call To Action (CTA)

 

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The Silencing of (Catholic) Women: Then and Now
Sr. Chris Schenk CSJ

 

Priest Survey

Lay leaders survey priests in 57 dioceses.The question: "Do you favor an open discussion of the mandatory celibacy rule for diocesan priests?”
Survey Results

 

PRIEST STATISITICS BY
DIOCESE

Priest Shortage Statistics by Diocese: 1976-2011
Official Catholic Directory statistics for every U.S. diocese

 

Clergy Sex Abuse

Liturgy of Lament for the Broken Body of Christ

Justice Anne Burke: Lay Review Board Recommendations

 

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What's New?


NEW! Sign and Circulate!
Open Letter to US Bishops
(about the priest shortage crisis)


Pray with Us!  Video Prayer of Lament at the American Catholic Council

(15 Minutes)

Free download of ACC Lament Prayer Service

FutureChurch Statement on Financial Accountability

RE: Jason Berry Book:
"Render Unto Rome"

 

FutureChurch's Action for Optional Celibacy Video

 

Deterred from Priesthood by Mandatory Celibacy Video

FutureChurch Statement on Canonical Warning Issued to Fr. Roy Bourgeois

 

Ways to Support US Sisters

Send An Electronic Postcard To Rome Requesting Optional Celibacy

(Français, Deutsch, Portugues, Espanol too)

Women Leaders in Early Christianity CD and Presenter’s Guide

ParishWatch: Tracking Parish Closings in North America

Save Our Parish Community

Do Not Stifle the Spirit!
A Call to Preserve Vibrant Parishes in a Time of Fewer Priests

"Crisis Kit" For Parishes faced with closing or merging

"Parish Rights and Obligations"

How to Claim Parish Rights

 

Lay Decision Making

Canon Law and Lay Decision Making

A Catholic Bill of Rights in the 1983 Code of Canon Law

Other

May We Thy Church Renew: Prayers for Building the FutureChurch
A book of Prayer-poems commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of FutureChurch. Order your copy today!