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How You Can Become Involved
Join our circle of advisors and representatives as an individual or as a representative of your reform group
"Alone, the pope cannot change the world. A pope for the people must have a people for the pope. This initiative gives us a means of being with Pope Francis."
Gaston Roberge, SJ, India
Worldwide Organizations
See the worldwide organizations who are speaking out to Pope Francis about the reform of our Church.
Petitions that have been signed over the years supporting similar reforms.
Catholic Church Reform Int'l - a Global Network of more than a hundred reform groups and individuals from 65 countries. If you would like to collaborate with us to continue on the path set by Vatican II, you have come to the right place. Welcome!
If there is to be any reform of any kind in the Catholic Church, it must begin with the people having a voice.
The need has never been greater than it is at this moment in time for the People of God to unite our voices so as to be strong enough to be heard in our Church. Our special advisor, Sr. Joan Chittister, reminds us: "Until we raise a common voice we will not only not be heard, we will not even be listened to in the light of larger issues and larger groups, all clamoring for attention."
Catholic Reform Groups join together saying, “The Synod was a good start, but...”
Help spread this latest press release we have prepared by sending it to your local media and any other media with whom you may have a personal contact.
Join with us by sending out or emailing a message to your local pastors, bishops, and church leaders
Hope for some kind of reform in our Church has never been more plausible. Francis is not only pushing for it but insisting upon it. We were far from getting everything we wanted from the Synod but Francis did manage to get a 2/3 majority support on a few key issues.
The time is now for us in the reform movement to unite together and be proactive. We are not content to wait to be invited to a local gathering by our churh leaders. We are initiating these meeting and invited church leaders to join with us.
We appreciate your help in using this email as a model and getting this message spread to every part of the world. If you don't get a response the first time you send the email, send it again. Let's carry out Francis's call to "Make a mess, but then also help to tidy it up. A mess which gives us a free heart, a mess which gives us solidarity, a mess which gives us hope."
“Follow Pope Francis’ way of dialogue and reform!”
Appeal of international reform movements to the Synod Fathers in Rome:
This appeal was initiated by groups organising two international conferences in Rome in November 2015 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965):
- ‘Commemorate and renew the Pact of the Catacombs’
November 11-17, 2015, Info: www.pro-konzil.de - ‘Council 50: A Church - Inspired by the Gospel - For the World‘
November 20-22, 2015, Info: www.council50.org
All matters concerning the family and sexual ethics have been an important part of the reflections of our organizations and movements for many years. We were inspired by the renewal brought into the Church by the Second Vatican Council, which we believe has now been taken up very clearly by Pope Francis.
Read more: “Follow Pope Francis’ way of dialogue and reform!”
Open Letter to Pope Francis: Being Church at the Peripheries
Here is another open letter to Pope Francis from young adult Catholic leaders. Feel free to support this cause as well.
Join with other reformers in a Pilgrimage walking the Camino de Santiago
The American Catholic Council is organizing a pilgrimage and welcomes all to join with them October 4 - 14, 2016. Click here for more information.
