Vatican synod is opening the door a bit wider for Catholic women

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In 2021, Sister Nathalie Becquart became the first woman to vote at any Vatican meeting when Pope Francis appointed her undersecretary to the synod, a gathering of bishops whose second session opened on October 2.

The documents produced by Vatican II say relatively little about women, which was, arguably, a victory for female auditors.

No woman ever addressed the council fathers; their efforts to do so were rebuffed, but their presence in preliminary meetings was significant. In a discussion of marriage, for instance, Luz María Alvarez-Icaza—a Mexican woman who, with her husband, José, was an auditor—informed the assembled clerics that she was confident that their mothers had conceived them in acts of love, not animal lust.

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Author / Journalist: Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina | The Conversation (CC) via AP

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