The Vatican mentioned calls for women’s ordination. Here begins the revolution?
With the Vatican’s Oct. 27 release of the document to guide the next phase of Pope Francis’ innovative new process for the Synod of Bishops, the Catholic Church has shown it has the capacity to listen to its people.
The 45-page synthesis of national and local listening sessions from countries around the world — known as the Working Document for the Continental Stage of the synod — presents an embodied synodality that offers a “path of recognition” for those who have felt invisible or dismissed by their church. Not to overstate the matter, but recognition — being seen and heard — is a small revolution.