#GODSAYSNOW CAMPAIGNFUNDRAIDING goal
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#Godsaysnow campaign goal
To see that priesthood for women is included in the study on "the role of women in the Church" that is already scheduled to take place from November 2024 to June 2025 as part of the Synod on Synodality
Pope Francis launched a worldwide listening process called the Synod on Synodality in October 2021. When the people in the pews were consulted, there was a near universal call for women in governance, preaching and ordination as deacons. However, while not universal, calls for the ordination of women as priests came from all around the world.
Pope Francis recently created working groups to study the significant issues that emerged from the consultation of God's people. One of these groups is assigned to study "the role of women in the Church." However, priesthood was intentionally excluded from their work. This does a great disservice to the Church because it is clear that the issue is open for discernment. For, if some parts of the world call for women to be priests, and other parts of the world call it a closed issue, then what is the invitation from God? The only way to address this growing divergence at every level of the Church is to dive into it, and the most obvious way to do this is to simply include priesthood in the study on the role of women that is already slotted to take place. The working group will present their plan of study to Synod representatives in October 2024. The time is now to join with the Holy Spirit to call the Church to integrity in its discernment on the role of women in the Church by including priesthood in this scheduled study. take action! |
learnThe ordination of women as priests is essential to the wellbeing of the Catholic Church. God incarnates through our faith symbols to touch us, heal us, guide us. By restricting the priest symbol to the male form alone, the Church prevents God's people from experiencing the full range of encounter that God desires to bestow on us. This constrained encounter produces a misunderstanding of who God is, what God desires, and how God is calling humans into relationship with God and one another. To put it simply, a lopsided priest symbol facilitates lopsided encounter with the living God. Lopsided encounter produces a lopsided world, that will always place women at the bottom. Women must fully participate in the symbolic life of the Church if we are to better collaborate with God to bring about salvation in this life.
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