For Immediate Release
We Are Church-USA regards the very unpleasant confusion around the succession of the Polish Primate, and other problematical appointments of bishops in recent years, as an urgent signal warning to the Vatican to make decisions on its personnel much more carefully and in much closer cooperation with local churches.

For Immediate release

Nov. 12, Baltimore, MD… An expected set of “pastoral guidelines” scheduled for review by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) at its annual Fall meeting in Baltimore begins with an erroneous understanding of what it means to be homosexual, Catholic reform leaders say in a letter to U.S. Catholic bishops.

For Immediate Release: November 23, 2005
Contact: Rea Howarth 301.699.0042
office, 301-538-4420 cell

Catholics Speak Out Condemns Ban of Gay Seminarians

Catholics Speak Out, a program of the Quixote Center, condemns in the
strongest terms the Roman Curia’s decision to ban gay men from admission to
seminaries unless their orientation is “transitory.”

For Release: 11/14/05
Contact: Rea Howarth 301-699-0042
cell: 301-538-4420 cso@quixote.org

Statement by Rea Howarth, Co-Director, Coordinator of Catholics Speak Out

Leadership does not consist of the ability to recite church teachings and bow toward Rome.

For immediate release: May 11, 2005
Contact: Rea Howarth 301-699-0042
cell: 301-538-4420, cso@quixote.org

Vatican to Jesuits & Catholics:
“We Know the Truth, and Our Truth Shall Stifle Thee”

With the forced resignation of Rev. Tom Reese, SJ, the well-regarded and cautious editor of America Magazine for seven years, the American Jesuits have sent exactly the wrong signal to Rome's guardians of orthodoxy. They have cooperated with a bullying tactic.

For immediate release: April 19, 2005
Contact: Rea Howarth 301-699-0042
cell: 301-538-4420, cso@quixote.org

We Are Church

An international movement of Catholics committed to renewal of the Catholic
Church

Press Release: April 15, 2005

Contact: Christian Weisner, 0049-511-800.010

IMWAC Press Release: April 14, 2005

Contact: Christian Weisner, 0049-511-800.010

Today, during a presentation sponsored by the International Movement We Are
Church (IMWAC), at the Auditorium Cavour, in Rome, Adriana Valerio, President of
the European Society of Women in Theological Research, told reporters the next
papacy must address the question of how women are perceived and treated in the
church.

For Immediate Release: 2 April 2005

Contact: Rea Howarth 301-699-0042 (work) 301-538-4420 (cell)

A Man of Contradictions: Pope John Paul II Leaves a Mixed Legacy

Catholics Speak Out and the Quixote Center pray for the pope’s soul. We acknowledge his essential goodness and deep spirituality. We know the impact of his 26-year papacy will reverberate for years to come.

For Immediate Release

Contact: Rea Howarth 301-699-3443 X 128
May 17, 2004

Today the Quixote Center released a full-page signature ad in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, speaking out on issues many Catholics consider important for the common good.

“The war in Iraq, the treatment of war prisoners, the manipulation of our Congress and our fellow US citizens that got us into this horrible situation in Iraq, and diverted us from tracking down Bin Laden and Al Quaeda—these are incredibly important issues in this election year,” says Rea Howarth, codirector of the Quixote Center and coordinator of the Center’s Catholics Speak Out program.