VOTF region nine

Contact Dave Biersmith to make a donation to the regional effort.

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To find out what we're all about, start here and then go to the Video Education page.

Tough Decisions Why we bother: click on title to hear the unedited voice of youth.  They are not connected to VOTF.

REGION NINE

INCLUDES MEMBERS IN:

  NEBRASKA    IOWA

     KANSAS    MISSOURI    

Active members of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church who belong to Voice of the Faithful in these geographic areas are united for the purpose of representation at the organization's national level.

Their proximity also leads to the possibility of common planning and cooperation appropriate to the region.

This website is intended as a means to further this goal.

We also hope to give non-members a better idea of who and what we are.  Please see the Video Education page. 

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Voice of the Faithful
Statement on Who We Are
Revised Initial Working Document

Voice of the Faithful, Inc. is an organization composed of Catholics striving to be faithful to the teachings of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Joining VOTF is not a break with the Church but a commitment to strengthen and renew it. The following affirmations are not meant to be a complete statement on who we are. They are primarily a response to those who misunderstand us, including members of our Church's hierarchy and lay Catholics who misinterpret our mission and goals.

• We are faithful Catholics in communion with the universal Catholic Church.
• We love and support our Church and believe what it professes.
• We accept the teaching authority of our Church, including the traditional role of the bishops and the Pope.
• We will work with our bishops, clergy, and other members to strengthen unity and human moral integrity in our Church.
• We believe that sexual abuse by clergy and the response of bishops, protecting abusers and forsaking the abused, have caused great human suffering and damaged the moral authority of our Church.
• We believe that the laity has the graced dignity, intelligence, responsibility and obligation to cooperate in Church governance in a meaningful way according to the norm of law (cf. Canon 129) to correct the profound flaws that have been revealed in the human institutional life of our Church.
• We believe that the council documents of Vatican II illuminate the pathway for lay involvement in the Church.
• We urge that the openness and mutual respect advocated by Pope John Paul II in Ut Unum Sint ("That All May Be One") be the model for meaningful dialog among bishops and laity.