Crux: Laypeople, including women, will vote as full members in upcoming Synod - Women's Ordination Conference

Crux: Laypeople, including women, will vote as full members in upcoming Synod

ROME – For the first time, lay people, including women, will serve as full members of the Synod of Bishops with voting rights, the Vatican announced Wednesday, as part of a broader series of changes to the rules governing participation in these papally convened summits. …

…In 2018, the Women’s Ordination Conference organized a rally outside the Vatican insisting that women be given voting rights and launched a petition which drew nearly 10,000 signatures in just two weeks’ time.

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