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In Solidarity with Anglican Women Priests, U.S. Roman Catholics Support Women's Ordination

FAIRFAX, Va., March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As the first Anglican women are ordained in England on Saturday, March 12, the U.S.-based Women's Ordination Conference (WOC), an international movement of women and men working for the ordination of Roman Catholic women to renewed priestly ministry, reiterates that "Women's Rights are Equal Rites!"

About 400 Anglicans, including two bishops, are crossing over into the Roman Catholic Church. Ruth Fitzpatrick, National Coordinator of WOC, notes, "These Anglicans, who are in effect 'disloyal to the Reformation,' are joining the Roman Catholic Church for what I see as all the wrong reasons. They fear women's full ecclesial equality with men and they ...

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