Tablet: Synod study group rejects ‘artificial separation between genders and roles’

By Aili Winstanley Channer

A study group established during the Synod on Synodality denounced “machismo clericalism” and said that “much remains to be done” to enable women to embrace their vocations, both within and beyond formal ministries and institutional positions. …

…The Women’s Ordination Conference said: “The authors of this report are frustratingly close to, and yet so far from, recognising that women’s access to Holy Orders is a natural response to their equal dignity and to the open invitation of the Holy Spirit to fully live out their vocations. 

“There are clear, concrete ways to heal the church of this injustice and, as the authors of this document know, women are not waiting for symbolic crumbs, auxiliary ‘women’s ministries’, or empty words devoid of a commitment to reform.”

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