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Pope Francis celebrates the New Year's day mass on Jan. 1 in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.Andrea Solaro / AFP - Getty Images
My Response: While this is one small step forward, it is a long way toward the goal of treating women as equals in our Church. The full equality of women in every role is the voice of God in our time. Women Priests are leading the way. Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP, https://arcwp.org
Recently, the Catholic Church took two small steps for womankind: This month, Pope Francis named the first woman to a managerial position in the Vatican’s most important office, the Secretariat of State. And in October, the world’s bishops suggested that Francis reconvene a commission he had created, at the urging of nuns, to study the ordination of women as permanent deacons — church ministers who are able to perform some of the duties of priests, but not to say Mass or hear confessions.
Yet these reforms only make clear how little power women hold in the church, where they constitute about half of Catholicism’s 1.2 billion adherents. Not only are women barred from ordination to the priesthood, they are not even allowed to vote at Vatican synods, convened to advise the pope about challenges facing the church.
My Response: While this is one small step forward, it is a long way toward the goal of treating women as equals in our Church. The full equality of women in every role is the voice of God in our time. Women Priests are leading the way. Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP, https://arcwp.org
Recently, the Catholic Church took two small steps for womankind: This month, Pope Francis named the first woman to a managerial position in the Vatican’s most important office, the Secretariat of State. And in October, the world’s bishops suggested that Francis reconvene a commission he had created, at the urging of nuns, to study the ordination of women as permanent deacons — church ministers who are able to perform some of the duties of priests, but not to say Mass or hear confessions.
Yet these reforms only make clear how little power women hold in the church, where they constitute about half of Catholicism’s 1.2 billion adherents. Not only are women barred from ordination to the priesthood, they are not even allowed to vote at Vatican synods, convened to advise the pope about challenges facing the church.
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