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Women and Priests-Conversations in the Spirit
February 5 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Event hosts, the Women in the Church Working Group of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP), seek to give space for listening deeply to the testimony of sisters and brothers who sometimes experience a judgmental Church instead of a listening and welcoming Church.
This call is being hosted in memory of Alana Chen.
Speakers:
Our speakers are Yunuen Trujillo, Rev. Bryan Massingale, and Joyce Calvo. Bishop John Stowe will join us for Q and A and prayer.
Yunuen Trujillo is a Catholic lay minister, faith-based community organizer, and an immigration attorney with more than 15 years of experience in young adult ministry and a leading figure for inclusive Catholic LBGT Ministry in the United States. She is a Religious Formation Coordinator (Spanish) with the Catholic Ministry with Lesbian and Gay Persons of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and author of the book LGBT Catholics: A Guide for Inclusive Ministry.
Bryan Massingale is a Catholic priest, author, activist, and professor in Applied Christian Ethics at Fordham University. Fr.. Massingale has authored two books and more than 200 articles, book chapters, and book reviews. He is a co-editor of , All of Us: A New Agenda for Catholic Theology from Queer Catholics of Color (Fortress Press, 2024). He is a leading voice among Catholics advocating the full inclusion of LGBTQ persons in both society and the faith community.
Joyce Calvo’s daughter Alana Chen died from suicide on Dec. 8, 2019. Calvo continues to urge all to “stop rejecting LGBTQ+ children” She hopes her advocacy “will alert Catholic parents to beware of the devastating impact the Church can have on their LGBTQ+ children” and “persuade people speaking for the Church to abandon their misguided and dangerous attempts to alter what God has made.”
Seeking Facilitators
We need facilitators for synodal Conversations in the Spirit. Indicate your interest when you register. A one-hour virtual training session is required and a Facilitator Briefing will be held on Feb. 3 at 6pm.