Global Sisters Report: As patience over women’s ministries wanes, theologian urges dialogue

Regardless of what happens this month at the Vatican when it comes to women’s ministries, Catholic women in Latin America will continue serving the poor and also want to maintain dialogue on the issue, said a U.S.-based theologian who hails from Latin America. …

…U.S.-based groups, too, are out in full force in Rome, but with a focus on the long-denied equality of women in the church, pushing beyond the diaconate and for recognized priesthood, saying that women, too, feel a calling to the ministry and it should not be denied. 

On the eve of the synod’s 2024 opening, the Women’s Ordination Conference, Women’s Ordination Worldwide, and Roman Catholic Womenpriests-USA gathered, along with others, Oct. 1 at Rome’s Basilica of St. Praxedes for a prayer vigil.

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