Women and the Word Synod 2008:
Put Women Back in the Biblical Picture

Dear Friend of Women's Equality in the Church:

Please help "put women back in the Biblical picture" at next October's Synod on "The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church" by sending a NEW e-postcard addressed to Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops.

Your first e-postcard helped shape your Bishop's input to the Synod.

Your second e-postcard will influence U.S. and Vatican Synod organizers, so please take this important next step in the campaign.

Your message will automatically be cc'd to the US synod delegates: Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington DC (a bishop advisor to the Synod), Cardinal Francis George of Chicago (the President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops), Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson (USCCB vice-president), Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Houston, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia (alternate delegate) and Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane (alternate delegate). Of course, Pope Benedict XVI will also receive a copy.

Act Now - Our voice - and the voices of hidden biblical women must be heard.

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Dear Archbishop, Thank you for acknowledging the "many contributions of the lay faithful" to the Synod on the Word. Pope Benedict has three times spoken about the need to "offer more space, and more positions of responsibility to women" (March 2006). Please include the following in your preparations for the Synod: -Invite women biblical experts. No women theologians were included in the 2005 Synod. -Devote more pastoral attention to Jesus and St. Paul's inclusion of women leaders. -Expand opportunities for women preachers so both women and men can hear the Word through the lens of female experience. -Restore biblical women leaders to lectionary readings in which their witness was diminished or deleted. (see Sr. Ruth Fox's article from May/June issue of LITURGY 90, (c) 1996, available at www.futurechurch.org) I would appreciate your reply.

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