NCR: The Vatican’s synod document is good. But how long must women wait?

Kate McElwee contributed this piece to the National Catholic Reporter on the Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming Synod on Synodality.

And while I will not discount the value and affirmation that comes from a Vatican process or document capturing the experiences of women with a semblance of depth, we simply must journey together beyond words. If we are to take up the challenge of “missionary urgency” the synod must listen to and walk with those women called to priesthood for whom the time is now.

Women around the world are crying out: How long must we discern our discipleship? The Women’s Ordination Conference plans to be present in Rome throughout the synod as a witness and a prayer that those within the synod hall will be courageously receptive to the movements of the Spirit. We don’t have to envisage equality when we follow the Gospel; we can live it.

Kate McElwee, Women’s Ordination Conference