A years-long process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of hopes that women would be given more equity. Francis said he would continue to listen to the bishops’ counsel, adding that “this is not a classic way of endlessly delaying decisions.” The Vatican’s top doctrinal officer, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, told an assembly of …
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Tuesday that its doctrine office will prepare a document on women in leadership roles in the Catholic Church, a new initiative to respond to longstanding demands by women to have a greater say in the church’s life. A group pressing for women’s ordination promptly dismissed the significance of it as “crumbs,” noting that ordained …
VATICAN CITY — An unprecedented global canvassing of Catholics has called for the church to take concrete steps to promote women to decision-making roles, for a “radical inclusion” of the LGBTQ+ community and for new accountability measures to check how bishops exercise authority. That reform is a concrete step toward what he calls “synodality,” a new way of being a …
The Church of England could consider “human composting” at Christian funerals to help meet its net zero target. Written question to Synod The bishops’ announcement comes after the General Synod, the Church of England’s legislative body, voted in February 2020 in favour of setting a target to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. He asked: “Bearing in mind the Church of …
