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At the School for Synodality of WUCWO, through its Observatory, we are committed to ‘Listening to transform lives’. Since 2021, we have been working to amplify voices within the Church through Conversations in the Spirit, the training of facilitators and the promotion of active and meaningful participation. In collaboration with the Secretariat of the Synod, we continue to train missionaries of synodality, ensuring that the voice of the faithful reaches the heart of the Church.

On 13 March 2025, during the 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women,  Professor Gabriella Gambino, Under-Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life and Head of the Holy See Delegation, issued a statement on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Fourth World Conference on Women and its outcome, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

That Beauty That Dwells Within Us 

Dear Sisters, each one of us is inhabited by a beauty that, almost without realizing it, we begin to cover with "makeup" or allow to wither away. The season of Lent that we have begun offers us a time to awaken and to allow to shine that beauty that beats deep within us and longs to express itself in the ordinary moments of life. How can we do this?

WUCWO organised together with the Interreligious Network of Women Promoting Encounter under the patronage of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue on the occasion of the World Interfaith Harmony Week an interreligious webinar that took place on February 28.

May no one be deprived of God's forgiveness and consolation

Jubilee 2025

Dear friends of WUCWO:

Last December 24, Pope Francis crossed the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome; a moment that surely went unnoticed by many of us, but which had great symbolic force for the entire Catholic Church. It was the beginning of the Jubilee Year 2025, which will last until 6 January 2026. We are all invited to imitate the Holy Father and participate as pilgrims of hope throughout the year, even if we cannot do so physically in a Jubilee Church, because there are many ways of taking part. The important thing is to understand what this year is and represents, to be able to benefit from all the graces that the Lord's mercy offers us and to respond to the call to live the ‘hope that does not disappoint’.

Last week, in the framework of the 8th of February, feast of St. Josephine Bakhita, the Talitha Kum network organised, supported by WUCWO, a Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking. Young ambassadors of hope, such as Christelle Tambi from CWA UK, took part in the event, along with Margot and Mercè from the WUCWO secretariat, under the coordination of Maria Giovanna Ruggieri. We have joined this network because we cannot allow more people, many of them women, to continue to be victims of this painful reality.

The WUCWO member organisations in Italy visited the General Secretariat, where they had the opportunity to meet the President General, Mónica Santamarina, and the Secretary General, Lavinia Rocchi, and to spend some time together.

The Week of Prayer Against Human Trafficking has just started, an initiative promoted by the International Committee for the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking (IDPHT) which we, as women of WUCWO, join. 

In late January, WUCWO was honoured to welcome the Hilton Foundation Board to our offices in Rome. During this meeting, Mónica Santamarina, President General, María Lía Zervino, Advisor to the Observatory, and Lia Beltrami, Producer and Director of In-Visibles, presented the results of the projects developed last year in collaboration with the World Women's Observatory (WWO) of WUCWO.

WUCWO’s School for Synodality invites you to participate in the webinar on February 24 at 2pm CET (Rome time). 

The objective of the webinar is to share the most transformative insights and key messages from the Synod's Final Document and the concrete steps and practical initiatives at all levels.

Sister Simona Brambilla (Vatican News)

On 6 January Pope Francis appointed Sister Simona Brambilla, former Superior General of the Consolata Missionary Sisters in Italy, as Prefect of the Dicastery for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, of which she was Secretary as of 7 October 2023.