Welcome To CfM

Who are Catholics for Ministry? We are a group of Catholics hopeful about the future of the Church. We maintain that 16,746 Mass-going Catholics can’t all be wrong. That is the number of people who signed a petition to the Catholic Bishops of Australia asking them to…

• Acknowledge that there is a major crisis in ministry within the Australian Church
• Acknowledge that there is no doctrinal barrier to the ordination of married men
• Take practical steps toward ordaining suitably qualified married men
• Encourage discussion of the role of women in ministry and in the authority structures of the Church
• Encourage discussion of the question of women's ordination
• Establish appropriate training programs to prepare people for ministry
• Invite priests who have left the ministry to return to active priesthood

Catholics for Ministry don’t just talk about what’s wrong in Catholicism today. We are doing something about it.

Please click here to view documents on the ordination of Catholic women.