#GODSAYSNOW MOVEMENTFUNDRAISING goal
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#Godsaysnow MOVEMENT goal
To see that priesthood is included in the study on "the role of women in the Church" scheduled to take place from November 2024 to June 2025 as part of the Synod on Synodality.
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE CHURCH WILL BE STUDIED AS PART OF THE SYNOD
Pope Francis launched a worldwide listening process called the Synod on Synodality in October 2021. Pope Francis recently created ten working groups to study the significant issues that emerged from the consultation of God's people in the first part of the synod. Working Group 5 is assigned to study "the role of women in the Church" and make recommendations to Pope Francis in June 2025. However, priesthood is intentionally excluded from their work. Excluding priesthood from the planned study does a great disservice to the Church because it is undeniably clear that the issue is open for discernment. THE ISSUE IS OPEN FOR DISCERNMENT This issue has a growing divergence:
The issue MUST BE STUDIED. 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 find out is to dive into the divergence. The most obvious way to do this is to simply include priesthood in the study on the role of women that is already scheduled to take place. |
CATHOLIC TRADITION & SYNODAL VALUES JUSTIFY THE INCLUSION OF PRIESTHOOD
Including priesthood in the study is justified by:
The time is right now to acknowledge reality, set aside attachments, and enter into honest, rigorous study to learn the invitation from God. The Church can no longer afford to wait, and women have waited long enough. |
GOD.SAYS.NOW.
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 define women as somehow a second order of creation. Women must fully participate in the symbolic life of the Church if we are to better collaborate with God to bring about God's desires for salvation in THIS life.
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