FutureChurch is an organization that advocates for the ordination of women within the Catholic Church. The group is based in Lakewood, Ohio. Deborah Rose-Milavec is its executive director.

Miriam Duignan is a leader with Women’s Ordination Worldwide, an international organization that advocates for women’s ordination and other leadership positions in the Catholic Church. She is based in the U.K.

Is a Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates for women’s ordination and leadership in the Catholic Church. It is the U.S. branch of Women’s Ordination Worldwide. Erin Saez Hannah is its executive director.

Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty advocates for elimination of the death penalty because it conflicts with Catholic teachings about the sanctity of life. The organization has offices in Washington, D.C., and at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md. Karen Clifton is executive director.

Maria Thornton McClain is a Catholic Womanpriest who leads St. Mary of Magdala Catholic Community in Indianapolis.

Women Can Be Priests calls itself a scholarly website, and it gathers research, resources and other information supporting the ordination of women as Catholic priests. It maintains a page of international scholars who support or oppose the ordination of women and provides contact information.

Roman Catholic Womenpriests is an organization that advocates for and ordains women as Catholic priests. Its ordained women are not recognized as priests by the broader Roman Catholic Church. It maintains a page listing all of its ordained women with contact information as well as a page of women priests by region with contact information. The main […]

Mary Keldermans was ordained as a Catholic priest by Roman Catholic Womenpriests in April 2014, an act for which she was excommunicated by her local bishop. She leads services at Holy Family Inclusive Catholic Community in Jacksonville, Ill., at the Congregational United Church of Christ.

Watch a Jan. 11, 2013, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly report about the push to ordain women as Catholic priests.