Statements
Women-Church Convergence Deplores Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett October 20, 2020
October 21, 2020
Women-Church Convergence Deplores Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett
Women-Church Convergence, a coalition of Catholic-rooted organizations, deplores the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. We have serious concerns about the judgment of any nominee who would collaborate in material ways in such a morally dubious enterprise. The current administration is obviously fulfilling a campaign promise to put justices on the Supreme Court who will overturn Roe v. Wade. To collaborate in such a public corruption of the judicial system is to create scandal.
Amy Coney Barrett is a moral agent capable and responsible for making her own choices. But even the appearance of willingness to sacrifice her own agency and integrity in service of a longstanding conservative, parochial, overweening agenda is deeply troubling to us. Loss of respect and reputation is a high price to pay to achieve a role for which she has been groomed from her student days by conservative Catholic colleagues. Scores of her University of Notre Dame colleagues have called her to step aside for the common good.
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An Open Letter to Catholic Voters and All Voters for Justice in the United States from Women-Church Convergence, July 2020
July 2020
An Open Letter to Catholic Voters and All Voters for Justice in the United States from Women-Church Convergence 
We greet you in the midst of a global pandemic, an economic catastrophe, and a moral emergency. We are women who lead Catholic-rooted organizations and communities. Our hearts are heavy with grief over Covid-19 illness and deaths, with the sting of unemployment and fiscal uncertainty, and especially with the weight of systemic racism and white supremacy that assure that people of color suffer all of these problems in disproportionate ways.
Our organizations struggle to support immigrants, guarantee reproductive justice, eradicate racism, gain women’s and LGBTIQ rights both in church and society, model inclusive community, and nurture ecology. The need for actions beyond words sparks this missive.
As we seek to answer the hard questions about what to do next, our collective mind turns to the November 2020 elections in the United States that will have worldwide repercussions. These elections are the next significant chance we have to stem the tide of injustice and usher in a new era of equality.
Voting is a hard-won and sacred duty. We implore you to VOTE.
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Women-Church Convergence Celebrates Diversity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 20, 2018.
Women-Church Convergence Celebrates Diversity
On the first anniversary of the Women’s Marches around the world, and in light of the violent and vulgar words of the President of the United States, Women-Church Convergence celebrates the glorious diversity of our global community. We reject racism and xenophobia, not just in speech, but also in all of its forms as contrary to the common good, contradictions to our values, and disruptions to world peace.
“Women-Church Convergence (W-CC) is a coalition of autonomous Catholic-rooted groups. The Convergence builds “just social and ecclesial structures with shared power for everyone, especially women and those whom church and society marginalize.” We seek to “amplify diverse feminist, faith-filled voices”…as we “create spaces in which all can live out their vision of full inclusion in church and society.” There are no exceptions. Our energies are focused especially with black and brown people who bear the brunt of the racist, xenophobic oppression we seek to end.
Women-Church Convergence Statement against Gun Violence
The letter below was sent by Members of Women-Church Convergence to the Student Leaders of March for Our Lives in Parkland, Florida.
May 4, 2018
Dear Anti-Gun Violence Leaders,
We, religious feminists rooted in the Catholic tradition, greet, applaud, and join you in your efforts to eradicate gun violence. Your courageous and insightful leadership is making a big difference.
We are deeply impressed by you who remind us of our justice-seeking children in your call for non-violence, an end to false notions of masculinity, and the embrace of all diverse and unique members of our communities. We write to convey our gratitude and pledge our support.
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Women-Church Convergence Opposes Trump’s Reversal of DACA and Calls for Passage of Legislation to Protect Dreamers
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January 18, 2017
Women-Church Convergence Opposes Trump’s Reversal of DACA and Calls for Passage of Legislation to Protect Dreamers
The undersigned groups of Women-Church Convergence (W-CC) issued the following statement:
As Catholic women living in these perilous political times, Women-Church Convergence, a coalition of Catholic-rooted feminist organizations, stands with all communities of recent immigrants for the protection of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients. We call for permanent legislative protection that allows these Dreamers, as they are called, a path to full citizenship. We also support citizenship paths for their families, because family unification keeps children and families healthy and strong, and greatly reflects our values.
President Obama signed the DACA executive order in 2012 to protect these young people whose stable lives stand to be up-ended without this protection. DACA provided a right to live in the United States, to work, gain an education, and raise a family here. Without this protection recipients are subject to being separated from family and community, and returned to a country where they may have been at risk, and where they may have few, if any, local connections. Many countries that would receive these people have very poor economies with few available jobs, and have very limited resources to absorb the hundreds of thousands of people that will be deported.