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Monday, October 21st, 2024
Cardinal Victor Fernandez, head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, issued an apology on Friday after missing a critical meeting of a synod group focused on women’s roles in the Church. The absence, confirmed to the National Catholic Reporter by multiple sources, triggered frustration among some delegates. Fernandez absence sparks discontent Fernandez was notably absent on Read more
Tags: Cardinal Fernández, Synod on synodality, Women, women in church, Women's diaconate
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Thursday, October 10th, 2024
As the second session of the Synod begins, it’s striking how little attention is given to the issue of women—not only within the Synod itself but also in church policy and in the behavior of women themselves. The exclusion of women from synodal debate is a papal decision, reaffirming their exclusion from “holy orders,” meaning Read more
Tags: 2024 Synod on Synodality, Catholic Women, Women
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Synod: Women in the Church, do we have so little self-worth?
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
Listening to diverse perspectives is the only way Catholics can understand the biggest issues impacting the Church, says US Bishop Daniel Flores (pictured). He explains that this way they’ll hear different world views from Catholics who come from different countries and cultures or have different life experiences from theirs. “Perspective is not the enemy of Read more
Tags: Bishop Daniel Flores, Global perspectives, Synod, Synod on synodality, Women
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Monday, October 7th, 2024
As this year’s session of the Synod on Synodality gets underway in Rome, South African women and women religious have reached new levels of frustration with the church and Pope Francis himself. Theologian and spiritual director Annemarie Paulin-Campbell said Pope Francis has been a superb leader in many respects. “However,” she said, “when it comes Read more
Tags: African women, Global Synod on Synodality, Women, women religious
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on South African women feel left off the agenda at the synod—and they’re frustrated with Pope Francis.
Monday, September 30th, 2024
Pope Francis has encountered criticism throughout his visit to Belgium, with the country’s king and prime minister urging him to take stronger steps to support survivors of abuse by Catholic clergy. Additionally, a rector at another Catholic university called on him to reconsider the Church’s prohibition on ordaining women as priests. The visit underscored the Read more
Tags: Alexander De Croo, Belgium, Clerical sexual abuse, Climate Change, Pope Francis, Pope Francis in Belgium, University of Louvain, Women, Women priests
Posted in Great reads, World | Comments Off on Pope Francis gets hard time during Belgium visit
Thursday, August 29th, 2024
I was struck by the gospel reading on Sunday (Aug. 25) in which John, speaking about Jesus’ followers, wrote that “many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him.” The image made me sad, because it seemed to reflect what is going on in the Catholic Church and Read more
Tags: Clericalism, Decline in vocations, Pope Francis, Synodality, Women
Posted in Analysis and Comment, Great reads | Comments Off on Breathe your spirit into the dry bones of your church
Monday, May 6th, 2024
I will be 80 years old in June. As a young child in the Methodist Church, I was certain I was called to ordained ministry. At Duke University, I majored in religious studies and then served as pastoral assistant and director of religious education in a small church in upstate New York. Then, in the Read more
Tags: chaplaincy, Female ordination, Women
Posted in Analysis and Comment, Great reads | Comments Off on In a church that has yet to deal justly with women, I stay a keeper of the vision
Thursday, March 7th, 2024
Women with Catholic employers are well-supported financially, with a smaller gender pay gap than their peers. Released on 27 February, the first national Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) report also notes some say their employers could do more to uphold all their employees’ dignity. The WGEA investigated about 5,000 companies, each employing more than 100 Read more
Tags: Archdiocese of Sydney, Australian Catholic University, Caritas Australia, Equal Opportunity, Gender pay gap, Women
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Monday, March 4th, 2024
Women in key roles at the Vatican and Catholic universities in its close orbit have been leading an effort to raise women’s standing and visibility in church governance, creating a growing network of experts, diplomats and scholars like them around the world. “Today we still have a lot to do to promote women. There are Read more
Tags: Catholic Women, Saints, Women
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Catholic women working to change the church take inspiration from female saints
Monday, November 13th, 2023
At the Synod on Synodality, the Western media focused on a limited number of hot-button issues — women’s ordination, married priests and blessing of gay couples. But hidden in the synod participants’ 40-page synthesis are some surprising gems that could lead to significant reform in the church. The hidden gems The first is a new Read more
Tags: 2023 Synod of Bishops, Abuse, Canon Law, Curia reform, Deconate, Diocesan reviews, Eucharistic hospitality, Lay Catholics, Liturgical language, Priestly Formation, Racism and Xenophobia, Synod, Synod 2021 - 2024, Synodality, the poor, Women
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Synod on Synodality – Fifteen hidden gems