{"id":1920716,"date":"2023-04-28T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T11:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-allows-women-to-join-group-of-bishops-advising-him\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T11:57:44","slug":"pope-francis-allows-women-to-join-group-of-bishops-advising-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-allows-women-to-join-group-of-bishops-advising-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Allows Women To Join Group Of Bishops Advising Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-allows-women-to-join-group-of-bishops-advising-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Pope Francis Approves Women and Lay People to Vote on Major Issues at Bishops&#8217; Conference<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pope Francis has taken another step towards revamping the Roman Catholic Church by formally approving the participation of women and lay people in voting on major issues, including LGBT relationships, at a bishops\u2019 conference. This move is part of the upcoming \u201cSynod on Synodality\u201d to be held between October 4-29, which will feature significant changes, including the addition of 70 non-bishop voting members. Half of these members will be women, and the 10 male representatives of various Catholic religious orders who previously had voting rights will be replaced by five male clerics and five nuns with voting rights. Nathalie Becquart, a nun, will also vote as the synod undersecretary.<\/p>\n<h3>Advisory Role of the Synod<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the synod does not have the formal power to effectuate change, it acts in an advisory role to the Pope about decisions he makes. After the vote on a final document for the assembly, the Pope alone decides whether to take any actions based on the recommendations in the final text or whether to adopt it as an official Church document.<\/p>\n<h3>Reactions to the Change<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some observers were delighted with the change, calling it a significant crack in the stained-glass ceiling. Kate McElwee, executive director of the Women\u2019s Ordination Conference, said, \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible development in the church\u2019s history.\u201d Deborah Rose, co-director of Future Church, cheered, \u201cIt is paradigm changing, it is literally restructuring one of the most important ways that the church makes decisions and looks at pastoral issues within the church. \u2026 what he has done is open a dam and opened a door, and I think there\u2019s no going back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the conservative Catholic site Silere non possum charged that Francis and the cardinals in charge of the synod \u201care trying, in every way, to bring into this institution all those people who have an interest in disrupting the church for their own personal ambitions.\u201d The post added, \u201cNo longer finding many bishops willing to trample on Christ\u2019s teaching, they are now turning to ambitious lay people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Francis&#8217; Efforts to Empower Women<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As far back as 2013, Francis theorized that the roles of women should not be limited \u201cto altar girls or the president of a charity. There must be more.\u201d In 2021, Francis amended the laws of the church to permit women to act as Bible readers at Mass and distribute communion. The next year, he added women to the committee that counsels which bishops he should select.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another indication of his desire to revamp the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis formally approved permitting women and lay people to vote on major issues, including LGBT relationships, at a bishops\u2019 conference. The upcoming bishops\u2019 conference, called the \u201cSynod on Synodality\u201d and to be held between October 4-29, will feature changes including the addition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1920717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10794,15572,9590,9592,5605],"class_list":["post-1920716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-advising","tag-bishops","tag-francis","tag-pope","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}