Articles and Publications
Publications
OCW Series of Pamphlets
OCW have published a series of pamphlets in the last ten years that outline the organisation's thinking on ordination of catholic women within a renewed ordained ministry.
1. A Gospel to be Proclaimed - the first pamphlet in the series written by our
founder Marie Louise Uhr in 1995.
As the people of the Good News of Jesus Christ, it is fitting that we should
turn to the Gospels when seeking for what is right and good for the church. It
is in the Gospels that we learn about the attitude of Jesus to women and to
ministry towards others. It is from the Gospels that we can seek guidance about
the ministry he might wish for his church.
Read the Pamphlet (HTML)
2. The Hour has Come - the second in the series published in 1997.
For over twenty years the Vatican has declared, with increasing firmness, that
the Catholic Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on
women, and that this teaching, based firmly on Scripture, has been held
faithfully for two thousand years.
Read the Pamphlet (PDF)
3. Duty Bound to Lead - the third in the series published in 2006.
The latest in the series (` Duty bound to lead: towards a renewed ordained
ministry`) was launched at the annual OCW National Conference held in Sydney in
November 2006.
Duty bound to lead: towards a renewed
ordained ministry (PDF 284 KB)
Articles
2007
Older Articles
Her Lips Moved
It has been the experience of women through the ages to be dismissed as deranged
or 'drunken' whenever they raised their voices to express an opinion at variance
with accepted male orthodoxy; A Collection of Narratives.
Read the Article (PDF)
National Conference Papers 2005
OCW held its National Conference and AGM in Melbourne on 5th and 6th November
2005.
Speakers included Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Jo
Armour OP PhD.
Pru Goward: Women, human rights and
religion (PDF)
Jo Armour OP PhD: Living Trinitarian Faith: A
restructured theology of the ordained ministry (PDF)