Pope Francis' meeting on the future of the Catholic Church concludes with a call for greater inclusion of women in church governance and research on allowing women to be deacons. However, no major changes are expected on hot-button doctrinal issues such as the church's views on homosexuality.
Pope Francis’ gathering of Catholic bishops and laypeople has concluded that it is “urgent” to guarantee fuller participation of women in church governance, and called for research on allowing women to be deacons to be released within a year.
But there was no denying that Francis’ Synod on Synodality, as the meeting is called, and the two-year canvassing of rank-and-file Catholics that preceded it, has indeed generated expectations. Another session is planned for next October, with final recommendations or conclusions from that meeting presented to Francis for his consideration in a future document.
In his vision of a “synodal” church, the faithful are listened to and accompanied rather than preached at by an out-of-touch “clerical” hierarchy that has suffered a credibility crisis over clergy abuse scandals around the world. “Though some seem to think it is possible to talk about co-responsibility in mission without addressing the elephant in the room, the fundamental equality of women and their access to all ministries of the church is a question that will persist until it is attended to with fierce attention to the Gospel,” said a statement this week from Women’s Ordination Conference, which has been staging events, marches and protests in Rome all month.
Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, whom Francis appointed as a member of the synod but has not hidden his opposition to it, said the gathering could hardly be called a Synod of Bishops “when lay people have the same voice, they have the same time to speak, and they take away opportunities for the bishops the possibility to speak”.
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