NCR: ‘We will continue to be heard’: Progressive Catholics react to synod report

By Brian Fraga
Staff Reporter

The 41-page synthesis report for the Synod of Bishops on Synodality disappointed several progressive Catholics and others who advocate for the Catholic Church to rethink its approach to issues such as the clergy sex abuse crisis, LGBTQ ministry, women’s roles in the church and the possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate.

But while some of those Catholics said they were dismayed or angered at what the report glossed over or omitted, others said the document is just the latest milestone in a multiyear process that will continue with another Vatican assembly in October 2024 and a post-synodal apostolic exhortation sometime after that. …

…Also hoping that the stage is set for meaningful change are Catholics who desire for the church to ordain women to the diaconate and the priesthood. The Women’s Ordination Conference, a group that supports ordaining women priests, said in a prepared statement that it was “dismayed by the failure of the synod to take seriously the overwhelming calls to open all ordained ministries” to women.

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