The Tablet: Synod failing to respond to Catholic calls for renewal and reform
Expectations for the Synod on Synodality “are low”, according to the lay reform group We Are Church International.
Speakers at a briefing organised by the group called for “strong proposals” for the full equality of women and allowing local churches the freedom to reform. […]
[…]Another of the six speakers from six continents calling for reform was Kate McElwee, executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference.
She likened the experience of those seeking the ordination of women to the diaconate and priesthood as “a prolonged Advent, wandering and waiting in the wilderness for the in-breaking of the newness of Christ into our Church”.
“For most, the time of waiting is clouded by a hierarchy whose individual whims and preferences lead us to an uneven local experience of synodality,” she said.