“Even if you leave the ordination question aside for a moment, there is still a great need to explore ways of engaging women in all other levels of the life of the church in significant roles. There is still a lot of work to be done.”
Women in the Church
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Making the church more inclusive while staying true to teaching: Vatican releases synod’s synthesis document
“The quality of homilies is almost unanimously reported as a problem.”
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Tania Tetlow vows to fight for social justice at Fordham inauguration
Tania Tetlow said she will refuse complacency and “what is easy,” instead putting the university’s efforts into addressing its difficulties.
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Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ was fiction—but it depicted Queen Elizabeth’s very real Christian faith.
As the queen of England, Elizabeth served as the religious leader of the British Commonwealth and supreme governor of the Church of England—and she took that role very seriously.
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New Sister Thea Bowman documentary highlights her faith and racial justice work
A new documentary on Sister Thea Bowman shines a light on her life and work as an advocate for racial justice and intercultural understanding.
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Want to improve communication between men and women in the Catholic church? Start in the seminary.
It is crucial that church leaders are trained to be good communicators, which also means being good listeners. This training is especially important for priests, whose communications skills (or lack thereof) often set the tone for a parish.
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Bishops must be good listeners, says nun at Vatican who helps select them
“The ideal bishop does not exist,” Sister Reungoat said. But he has to be a shepherd who is “close to the people entrusted to him, he has to know how to involve priests, laity and religious, and people of different generations.”
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For the first time ever, Pope Francis appoints three women to the Vatican office that selects bishops
Continuing with determination to open up new positions of responsibility for women in the Roman Curia, Pope Francis has appointed three women as members of the Dicastery for Bishops.
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After protest, Australian council agrees on ‘vastly improved’ document on women in the church
Francine Pirola, co-director of the Sydney-based Marriage Resource Center, said the council had produced a “vastly improved” revision of the section of the document on women, which had been the focus of a major disruption July 6.
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Over 60 members of Australia’s Plenary Council stage protest over failed vote on women deacons
The agenda for the Second Assembly of Australia’s Plenary Council was disrupted July 6 after more than 60 of the 277 members staged a protest over issues regarding women in the church.