[6] After its foundation in 1975, WOC became more prominent in 1979 during Pope John Paul II's first visit to the United States.
It has also hosted conferences in conjunction with Women's Ordination Worldwide in 2001 in Dublin, Ireland,[8] and 2005 in Ottawa, Canada.
[9] Those two groups also hosted a conference in September 2015 in Philadelphia, just prior to Pope Francis' first visit to the United States.
[10] In October 2018, WOC organized a peaceful protest outside the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome to call for "Votes for Catholic Women" during the Fifteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on "Young People, Faith, and Vocational Discernment.
He [Francis] could have quoted the Vatican's own the Pontifical Biblical Commission that concluded in 1976 that there is no valid scriptural or theological reason for denying ordination to women.WOC draws upon a range of scriptural, historical, theological, and political material to promote women's ordination.