The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality focuses on understanding and implementing synodality in the Church, while controversial issues like women’s ordination and LGBTQ+ ministry are set aside for future study.
VATICAN CITY — St. Peter’s Basilica hired two women to its team of “sanpietrini,” the church’s specialized artisans and workers, for the first time since the basilica’s maintenance office was established … Learn More
Synodal study groups explore the question of women deacons.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has appointed a woman for the first time to be the No. 2 official of the Roman Curia office that works with religious orders and … Learn More
The approaching world Synod of Bishops on Synodality aims to be a lesson on the “exchange of gifts,” said Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops office … Learn More
The bishop of San Francisco de Macorís in the Dominican Republic, Alfredo De la Cruz, who will be participating in the Synod on Synodality in October at the Vatican, said … Learn More
WASHINGTON — A Georgetown panel considered “the question of women’s ordination” April 17, describing the matter as “unfinished” despite Pope Francis’ current teaching and St. John Paul II’s 1994 teaching … Learn More
Doors opened for women when Pope Francis appointed Sister as an undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops.
