Acknowledgements

Data gathering was a challenging and time-consuming task and to our volunteers, we owe deep gratitude for making this report possible. We wish we could name each one, but the current climate of fear in too many dioceses made some unwilling to release their names.

We especially wish to thank the family of Linda Reider, a church reform activist from San Diego, Calif. She courageously took on the laborious task of data entry while recovering from surgery for brain cancer. She died before we were able to complete the study. This project was, literally, her dying contribution to the church she loved. Thank you to her husband, Larry, and her daughters, Jane and Monica, for sharing her precious last days with us.

The groups providing staff resources and material support for this study are Call to Action-USA; Catholics Speak Out, Quixote Center; the Ecumenical Catholic Communion; FutureChurch; RAPPORT for Women Ordained; Southeastern Pennsylvania Women's Ordination Conference; Women-Church Convergence; and Women's Ordination Conference. Catholics Speak Out coordinates the Women's Justice Coalition. Last, but certainly not least, we wish to acknowledge the financial support of Catholic Speak Out's generous donors. They made this landmark project possible. To all of you, many thanks.