Next steps: Pope Francis’ synod made few waves, but organisers say it’s already changing the church
The controversy over blessing gay couples is just another example of synodality at work, according to Sr. Nathalie Becquart. CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports….
Catholic women: A high-profile French nun is inspiring hope. But can she really bring change?
NICOLE WINFIELD, of Associated Press, reports on the hopes and challenges surrounding Sister Nathalie Becquart…
Pope allows women to vote at upcoming bishops’ meeting
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops, an historic reform that reflects his hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church. Francis approved changes to the norms governing the Synod of Bishops, a […]
Vatican’s highest-ranking nun, Nathalie Becquart, talks synodality with young Catholics
United StatesRNS Sister Nathalie Becquart, the highest-ranking woman at the Vatican, dropped into St Paul the Apostle Church in Manhattan on Tuesday evening to talk to and about young Catholics, and particularly young women in the church. The French nun, who is shepherding a worldwide survey of Catholics ahead of a fall meeting of bishops on […]
Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality organisers: “Trust the process”
Vatican CityRNS The Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis’ massive consultation of all Catholic dioceses, parishes and organisations on the state of the church, completed its first phase, with Vatican officials receiving reports from countries around the world on their findings. As the second phase begins, and amid doubts that the results will be representative, the […]
Catholic nuns lift veil on abuse in convents
Vatican CityReuters When young nuns at a convent in Eastern Europe told their Mother Superior that a priest had tried to molest them, she retorted that it was probably their fault for “provoking him”. When African nuns in Minnesota asked why it was always they who had to shovel snow they were told it was […]
Nun named to voting position at Vatican praises “brave” Pope
Rome, ItalyAP A French nun who has become the first woman to hold a voting position at the Vatican said Wednesday that her appointment is evidence the “patriarchal mindset is changing” as more and more women assume high-level decision-making responsibilities in the Catholic hierarchy. Sister Nathalie Becquart said during a news conference that her appointment […]