RTE News (Ireland): Vatican publishes report on Pope’s month-long synod

RTE News (Ireland): Vatican publishes report on Pope’s month-long synod

By Ailbhe Conneely
Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent

A report concluding Pope Francis’s month-long synod on Synodality has been published by the Vatican.

It follows a meeting of the 16th Synod of Bishops this month, which was held after the Pope called for a global conversation among Catholics in 2021, about their church.

For the first time in a Synod of Bishops, laypeople – including women – took part in the vote on the final document. …

…The Women’s Ordination Conference – which is seeking equality for women in the Roman Catholic Church – has expressed dismay “by the failure of the synod to take seriously the overwhelming calls to open all ordained ministries to women”.

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