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Pope Francis attends the final session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican October 26, 2019. Pope Francis has dramatically expanded participation in the Vatican’s upcoming Synod of Bishops to include lay men and women, for the first time granting them a right to be appointed as full voting members of the Catholic Church’s primary consultative body.
The first of the two-part synod gathering will take place in Rome this Oct 4-29 and is expected to address Church governance and a number of hot-button issues in the Church, among them the role of women in the Church and LGBTQ relationships. For years, lay Catholics have lobbied for such a reform. In 2018, a petition circulated by church reform groups gained nearly 10,000 signatures requesting that women religious be granted the right to vote at the synod.
As is customary, fraternal delegates from other Christian churches and communities will be invited to participate, along with outside experts. In addition, the October 2023 synod will introduce the role of “facilitators” who will be relied on to moderate various proceedings during the monthlong gathering. The Vatican has yet to release a list of invited outside participants.
For the 70 non-bishop members of the October gathering, the Vatican synod office has asked each region to put forward a total of 20 possible persons with appropriate pastoral experience and past participation in the synod process, half of whom will eventually be selected to participate in the October 2023 and October 2024 gatherings in Rome.
The bulletin updates the 2018 Vatican constitution, Episcopalis Communio, with which Francis reformed the structure of the synod. The bulletin said non-bishop members are not elected by a body whose membership they are expected to represent, but rather, are appointed directly by the Pope as a sign of the collegiality experienced at the continental ecclessial assemblies earlier this year.
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