We are Church is a dissident liberal movement which advocates changing moral teachings of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

. It emphasizes what it calls the spirit of the Second Vatican Council

Second Vatican Council

The Second Vatican Council addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed...

 over the Council's letter, and insists on the rupture between the pre-Conciliar and post-Conciliar period.

The organization wants to change the Roman Catholic Church's policies in these ways:

• Less hierarchy
  Hierarchy
  A hierarchy is an arrangement of items in which the items are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another...
  
  
• More participation of women in the Church, in particular female priests
• Ending the requirement of celibacy in the Latin Church
  Latin Church
  The Latin Church is the largest particular church within the Catholic Church. It is a particular church not on the level of the local particular churches known as dioceses or eparchies, but on the level of autonomous ritual churches, of which there are 23, the remaining 22 of which are Eastern...
  
   priesthood
• Positive attitude towards sexuality
  Human sexuality
  Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
  
  , including homosexuality
  Homosexuality
  Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...
  
  
• Promote a message of joy, rather than threat or discrimination.