October 2019: Our Chairperson, Sr. Donna Ciangio OP, is speaking at the Women of the Church Leadership Conference at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, IL. Join some of our board members at this excellent event! Registration is extended to October 4th! Visit www.womenofthechurch.org for more information.
September 2019: Welcome to a New Membership Year with NAFSCC! We met our new members on a Meet and Greet webinar to kick off the new year.
Past News:
January 2019: Our Chairperson, Sr. Donna Ciangio, OP (in blue) spoke at Fordham University on January 15, 2019 about the Future of Women Deacons. Sr. Donna partnered with Dr. Phyllis Zagano to assist with her research into the subject over the past several months.
At the event, members of the Papal Study Commission on the Diaconate of Women spoke publicly for the first time since Pope Francis created the commission in 2016. They were joined by Sr. Donna Ciangio, an American woman religious who has done research on how women deacons would be received in U.S. parishes.
Feel free to watch the ground breaking study and panel discussion below!