A national billboard campaign launched by The Friends of Roy Bourgeois advocating for the ordination of women priests in the Roman Catholic Church has come to many cities. With the Catholic Church in crisis as evidenced by declining church attendance, archdiocesan closings of schools and parishes, dwindling finances due to the clergy sex abuse scandal, and fewer vocations to the priesthood—many Catholics feel that the time has come to ordain women priests.
Billboard keeps conversation about women's ordination alive,in the University of Loyola's The Maroon, February 26, 2021.
Pittsburgh billboard calls for women priests in Catholic Church: Says end to male-only priesthood would help a church 'in crisis,'February 9, 2021.
Ordain women priests' billboard campaign expands to New Orleans: Project of laicized priest Roy Bourgeois finds support,in the National Catholic Reporter, January 28, 2021.
Despite ouster, UL alum, ousted priest, continues to call for women to be ordained,in The Acadiana Advocate, November 20, 2020.
Fulfilling a Childhood Dream: NE Philadelphia Resident Judy Heffernan is Ordained a Priest,in Irish Edition, May 22, 2011. Judy Heffernan is the woman priest featured on the billboard.