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Mission and Vision

Our Mission:   FutureChurch seeks changes that will provide all Roman Catholics the opportunity to participate fully in Church life and leadership

Our Vision: FutureChurch works for:

      * Just, open and collaborative        structures for Catholic worship, organization and governance.

     * A return to the Church’s early tradition of both married and celibate priests.

     * A return to the Church’s earliest   tradition, modeled on the inclusive practice of Jesus, of recognizing both female and male leaders of faith communities.

     * Regular access to the Eucharist, the center of Catholic life and worship, for all Catholics.

Guiding Principle:   Future Church's activities grow from a spirituality based on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Eucharist, the Spirit-filled beliefs of the faithful, and the teachings of Vatican II. 

 

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Ways to Support US Sisters

Novena to the Holy Spirit for an Inclusive Priesthood during the Church's Year for Priests

Send An Electronic Postcard To Rome Requesting Optional Celibacy

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Women Leaders in Early Christianity CD and Presenter’s Guide

Women and the Word: Follow-up Synod 2008
Send your paper and electronic postcards!

Los Angeles Conference Names, Bridges Gaps for Women of the Word

More Ways to Support Fr. Roy Bourgeois

Women Leaders in the
Ministry of Paul
Free downloadable resources

Women and the Word: Synod 2008 -- Chris Reports from Rome
Chris Reports from Rome

 

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

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Priest Survey

Lay leaders survey priests in 55 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 USA: 1976-2006
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

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!

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In the News

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Why Is the Catholic Church Firing Women?
December 17, 2009
By Claire Bushey
Double X

The bits I couldn't include in my Catholic church worker story
December 17, 2009
By Claire Bushey
Hard Labor

Priestly celibacy gets new look after Vatican welcomes married Anglican clergy
November 5, 2009
By Jennifer Garza
Sacramento Bee

Catholics urged to tell Vatican of nuns' work
Rome is asked to cease secrecy in investigations

September 8, 2009
By David Yonke
Toledo Blade

A map to the future church
July 16, 2009
By Tom Roberts
National Catholic Reporter

Women in the Catholic Church: A discussion with Sr. Christine Schenk about the role of women in the Catholic church.
July 9, 2009
NPR Radio

It's Not All About Eve - Rediscovering the feminine faces in the Bible
July 6, 2009
By Christine Schenk
America Magazine

Parishioners try to keep parishes open, but official options are few
July 1, 2009
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service

Celibacy called to account - Forces within the faith want married men admitted to the priesthood
May 9, 2009
By Charles Lewis
National Post (Canada)

On Eve of Retirement, Cardinal Breathes Life Into Debate on Priestly Celibacy
March 21, 2009
By Paul Vitello
New York Times

Catholic faithful face church closures
March 25, 2009
By Jessica Ravitz
CNN

Parishioners of Catholic churches targeted for closings left wondering, 'Why us?'
March 16, 2009
By Robert L. Smith & Michael O'Malley
Cleveland Plain Dealer

Catholic group calls for more women in Mass texts
January 1, 2009
By Michael O'Malley
Religion News Service

Catholics Push for Mary's Canticle To Be Heard
December 21, 2008
By Claire Bushey
Women's eNews

Foreign Ministry
December 29, 2008
By Jeff Parrott
U.S. Catholic

Synod: Interview with Chris Schenk of "FutureChurch"
Oct. 14, 2008
By John L. Allen
National Post (Canada)

Parish closing trauma
By Tom Roberts
National Catholic Reporter

Pell to preside at Synod
September 10, 2008
CathNews

3 more Catholic churches oppose diocesan reorganization
September 12, 2008 By David Briggs
Cleveland Plain Dealer

Cleveland Catholics organizing ahead of closures
September 13, 2008

Wanted: More Catholic priests
Local parishes feel effects of shortage

August 22, 2008 By Rob Daniel
Iowa City Press-Citizen


 

 

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