On June 2, members of CNWE Toronto gathered to celebrate CNWE’s 30 years under the theme – As We Carry On… 30 Years of CNWE: “Pearls of Wisdom”

Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:30 p.m.: Evening Dinner Cost: $35
An opportunity to gather for a meal together. Mar/by Kennedy Bardsley opens her home at 138 Wa-terloo Row (downtown Fredericton) to you for a relaxed catered meal and great company. When registering, if you indicate any special needs such as transportation or dietary, we will do are best to accommodate.

Friday, June 24, 2011 10:00 a.m.: Art Gallery Tour Cost: $10
A Docent Guided tour of the renowned Beaverbrook Art Gallery collection. The duration of the tour is approximately 1 to 1 and 1/2 hours and we invite you to gather in the lobby of the Art Gallery, 703 Queen Street (downtown Fredericton), to begin the tour.

Friday, June 24, 2011 2:00 p.m.: Guided Heritage Walking Tour Cost: $20
An historically-costumed guide will transport your group to you were there, offering dramatic an-ecdotes, stories and sometimes a poem or a song. The highly-skilled guides mix this unique flavour with traditional commentary featuring architecture, social history and all sorts of interesting trivia. Meet at the Legislative Assembly Building, 706 Queen Street.

The standard 1 and 1/2 hours features a circle route throughout the historic downtown. Highlights include: Christ Church Cathedral, the Legislature, the Historic Garrison District, City Hall, Loyalist Burial Ground, well-groomed historic neighbourhoods and the riverfront.

Travel companions, friends and others are welcome to register.

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The Vexed Question of Catholic Women, Abortion and Public Policy

A respectful sharing and information-gathering session for CNWE members on topics including:

• the history of Catholic teaching on abortion
• the status of abortion in Canada
• the politics of Church teaching on abortion
• conscience and Catholic women
• towards peace and a common ground

Facilitator: Rosemary Ganley

Rosemary helps organize women’s events in Peterborough, Ontario and does development work in Jamaica. A long time CNWE member, she was assistant editor of Catholic New Times in Toronto (2001-2006), and teaches feminist theology in Jamaica and in Canada. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto STAR, the Peterborough Examiner, the Green Teacher and Conscience magazine. She also volunteers with Catholics for Choice Canada. A second wave feminist, Rosemary attended the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, where religion was, for the first time at a UN meeting, a topic of inquiry. She is the winner of several awards for her work, including the Canada 150 Medal, the YWCA Woman of the Year Prize, and a Trent University Citation for community involvement. Interested in the intersection of women’s studies and the religions, she has studied liberation theologies at Regis College in Toronto and at Boston College. Rosemary has three sons and seven grandchildren. Most importantly, she paddled the Yukon River in 2009 (330 kilometers), with a group of senior women and lives to tell the tale.

Friday 24 June 2011
9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Tilley Hall, Room 8
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB
Cost: $35.00 per person which includes lunch

To register contact Cathy Holtmann:
cathyh@nb.aibn.com or (506) 366-1081 home.

by Joan Missiaen

To celebrate ‘International Women’s Day’ 16 women gathered at the corner of Bay and Bloor between 4:30 – 5:30 PM carrying placards that read – - -

‘SAY NO TO SEXUAL SLAVERY EVERYWHERE’

‘BRING HUMAN TRAFFICKING OUT OF THE SHADOWS’

‘HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS MODERN SLAVERY’

‘HUMAN TRAFFICKING SHAMES US ALL’

A young man walked back and forth on Bay St, then reticently came over to me. “I may not look it”, he said pointing to his long hair, “but I do care what happens to women. I don’t want them hurt.” As I thanked him for the courage to stop, he smiled then walked away with his head held high.

Others greeted with “‘Happy International Women’s Day”, or thanked us for taking a stand.

Every year members and friends of CNWE – Catholic Network for Women’s Equality – gather at Bay and Bloor to protest violence against women in its many forms. All are welcome!

AS WE CARRY ON… 30 YEARS OF CNWE
WOMEN WITH A PAST… SHAPING A FUTURE!

Led by Rita, Mary & Denise,CNWE Toronto gathered together to launch a new year,leading up to CNWE’s 30′th anniversary in July 2011,with prayer, reflection and sharing.

The wells of living water from which we drew included most especially,ourselves,and also, the music of Carolyn McDade,and the words of Simon Tugwell OP:

The purpose of returning to the past is that we should rediscover ways of
drawing close to the source of living waters, so that our instinct may be
sharpened to recognize in that bewildering world around us the presence and
activity of the life-giving Spirit, so that, rooted in a generous shared
past, we can find new ways of being and living and working together, and new
patterns of significance in the jumble of our own experience.