“The church belongs to all of us”: Women’s voices and votes loom large as Pope is set to open a Vatican meeting on church’s future
NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS, of Associated Press, report…
Catholic Church: Synod raises hopes for long-sought recognition of women
CLAIRE GIANGRAVE, of Religion News Service, reports on how, called to examine power structures in the Catholic Church, the Synod on Synodality will grapple in large part with the role of women…
Essay: Pope Francis punts on married priests
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks the Pope’s response to the Amazon synod’s recommendations issued this week…
Working groups at the Vatican’s Amazon synod push for married clergy
Vatican CityRNS As the 185 Catholic bishops who met to discuss the Amazon region broke into small working groups for the second week of the synod, the topics they would tackle included dwindling vocations, the role of women and married men in the church and the rights of Indigenous peoples. But if the small-group participants […]