Women's Ordination Conference Seeks Executive Director
The is groundbreaking Catholic organization seeking the ordination of women to the priesthood. As a favor to this courageous group I am posting the following help wanted request:
WOC seeks Executive Director
~ please forward widely. Job announcement online at http://www.womensordination.org/content/view/9/35/ ~
Position Title: Executive Director Reports to: Board of Directors
Organizational Description: Women's Ordination Conference is a national non-profit organization that works to ordain women as priests, deacons, and bishops into an inclusive Catholic church.
Position Summary: To give direction and leadership toward the achievement of the organization's philosophy, mission, strategy, and its annual goals and objectives.
Major Functions:
Program and Service Delivery - Oversees design, performance, implementation and quality of programs and services to members and other interested organizations.
Media and Public Relations - Assures the organization and its mission, programs and services are consistently presented in strong, positive image to relevant stakeholders
Fundraising - Plans and implements organizational fundraising, including identifying resource requirements, researching funding sources, establishing strategies to approach donors, submitting proposals and administrating fundraising records and documentation.
Human Resource Management - Effectively manages the human resources of the organization according to authorized personnel policies and procedures that fully conform to current law's and regulations
Fiscal Responsibility and Financial Management - Recommends yearly budget for Board approval and prudently manages organization's resources within those budget guidelines according to current law's and regulations.
Board Collaboration - Works with Board of Directors on programming, fundraising and other activities by collaborating with Board members and interfacing between Board and staff.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
* Committed to WOC's mission to ordain women into an inclusive Catholic church
* Bachelor's degree
* Administration, fundraising and finance management skills
* Basic knowledge of current Catholic issues, women's issues in the Catholic Church and feminist theology
* Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills
* Demonstrated commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion
* Self-motivated with a positive attitude
* Able to travel
Anticipated Start Date: Early June 2009
Application Process:
Please submit: a) resume, b) three references, c) a 1 page cover letter and d) a separate document (5 pages max) with your responses to the following questions:
1. WOC's mission is to advocate and pray for the ordination of women as deacons, priests and bishops into an inclusive and accountable Roman Catholic Church. What is your vision of women priests within an inclusive and accountable Roman Catholic Church? What are your views on the different forms of and paths to ordination (contra legem ordinations (e.g. RCWP/ECC), small faith community ordinations, view that all are priests through baptism and no need for formal ordination, people working within the institutional church to get the Vatican to ordain women) and how WOC should promote the goals of each of these constituencies?
2. Describe your leadership and organization styles. How would you lead and manage the WOC staff (Assistant Director, Office Manager, Consultants for Bookkeeping and Fundraising) to accomplish WOC's strategic goals? What conflict resolution process or strategies would you use?
3. Describe an event that you worked on that was covered by the media and what specific actions you took to get your message covered by all forms of media. What went well? What needed to be improved? How would you promote WOC's mission through the media?
4. Tell us about your experience in fundraising in soliciting donations in person, by direct mail, and writing grants. Our current budget is about $200,000 a year. What are your ideas for building and sustaining WOC's donor base?
Send all materials via e-mail by February 15, 2009 to Kate Childs Graham, WOC Board member, at kchildsgraham@gmail.com.
WOC fully and actively supports equal opportunity for all people and encourages women, people of color and LGBTQ applicants to submit proposals.
About the Women's Ordination Conference:
Founded in 1975, WOC is the oldest and largest organization advocating solely for women's ordination into an inclusive and accountable Catholic Church. WOC is a national non-profit organization that represents the 63% of US Catholics that support ordaining women as priests. With over 30 years of experience and a highly motivated and dedicated staff, WOC is on the cutting edge of the movement for women's justice in the Catholic Church.
WOC Goals:
* Renew church governance to be inclusive, accountable and transparent
* Bring about justice and equality for Catholic women
* Incorporate women-centered theologies into every-day Catholicism
For more information, please visit www.womensordination.org.
Women's Ordination Conference
PO Box 15057
Washington, DC 20003
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Father Roy Bourgeois - excommunicated?
I note with sorrow that the Rev. Roy Bourgeois, the Maryknoll priest and peace activist who's best known for leading the movement to close the School of the Americas (now officially titled the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), has evidently been excommunicated for delivering the homily and laying on hands at "a ceremony in a Unitarian Universalist church in Lexington, Ky., in which a friend from the peace movement, Janice Sevre-Duszynska, claimed ordination as a Roman Catholic priest." (New York Times, 11.14.08). His friend is "the 35th American woman to claim ordination from an increasingly vocal group known as Roman Catholic Womenpriests."
In October, he received a letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith threatening him with excommunication. In his written response, he described the Vatican's letter as demanding that he recant his "belief and public statements that support the ordination of women in our Church" or be excommunicated within 30 days. His reply was that he wouldn't, so presumably the excommunication is official. He said he would go to Rome in late November to appeal or to lobby against the decision.
Has anyone read anything about what's happened since he went to Rome?
Fr. Bourgeois' letter to the Vatican, along with illuminating articles from the Catholic Post, is part of a long entry at Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-michael-lerner/church-threatens-to-e..., and is well worth reading as a strong argument for women priests.
Beliefnet has a piece posted yesterday: US Nuns to Vatican: We support Fr. Roy Bourgeois and women's ordination. It's signed by more than 100 nuns from 22 religious congregations and was put together by the National Coalition of American Nuns. They put forth a straightforward challenge and conclude with "So we join Fr. Roy Bourgeois and the majority of U.S. Catholics, who believe that women are called to priestly ordination in the Catholic Church. We look forward to the day when Catholic women, following in the footsteps of Mary Magdalene who announced the Resurrection to the male Apostles, will minister as full equals in our church." There's a good press release on their home page.
Also, Sister Joan Chichester has a strong blog entry on the subject at the National Catholic Reporter: In-between is a dangerous place to be.
I heard Fr. Roy speak at a peace conference in August at the Kateria Tekakwitha Shrine in east-central NY. He's a good man and presents a formidable challenge. Some day some walls will have to come tumblin' down.
Bill
Father Roy
Father Roy getting ex-communicated really tugs at my heartstrings. There was a time I was a Catholic, a Lector, a teacher of High School Religious Education, recommended for the Deaconate, and anxiously waiting for the Catholic church to lead Christendom into the 21st century. Vatican II pointed the way and I was among those with great hopes. It seemed though that the evolution was not to be forward but backward. The ordained, all male leadership of the Church seemed to become increasingly defensive and narrow on issues like women's ordination instead of progressive. I finally reached a point I could no longer keep supporting this institution and keep dropping my $20 or so in the plate every Sunday to perpetuate the system. I had to decide I was not going to spend the rest of my life waiting for the Church to come around.
I mean no offense to Catholics, like Frank, still in the trenches trying to move the monolith, trying to make a difference, trying to push the Church into the 21st century. Ultimately though, the Catholic Church is not a Democracy, it is an oligarchy, ran by small group of bachelor males, intent on maintaining the status quo and their power.
Father Ray has been a bright shining light in the Church.