{"id":119133,"date":"2024-10-28T00:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119133"},"modified":"2024-10-28T00:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:50:03","slug":"the-pope-has-shown-openness-to-greater-roles-for-women-but-theres-pressure-for-him-to-go-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119133","title":{"rendered":"The Pope has shown openness to greater roles for women \u2013 but there\u2019s pressure for him to go further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rno8r1000d3b6movx0cw01@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and lay people \u2013 a synod \u2013 which formally concluded Sunday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ia00183b6mk6bzsngv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The final Synod assembly document, approved by Pope Francis, said women must be given all the opportunities that church law provides to act as leaders, but left the possibility of ordaining women as deacons as an \u201copen\u201d question which needs further reflection.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib00193b6mtdtrij1p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Frustrations about the slow pace of reform bubbled into the open during the assembly when the pope\u2019s doctrine adviser ruled out ordaining women as deacons and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/vatican\/vatican-news\/outrage-follows-vatican-doctrine-chiefs-absence-synod-meeting-secretive-womens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">then failed to turn up to a meeting on the topic<\/a>. He later apologized and held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2024-10\/fernandez-let-us-work-to-give-women-more-space-and-power.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 90-minute meeting with members of the assembly<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001a3b6mx4lbp6i1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Some are unimpressed by what they see as the Vatican kicking the topic of deacons into the long grass.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001b3b6mg2iz1tte@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Phyllis Zagano, a research professor at Hofstra University in New York and expert on female deacons, said that \u201cthere is abundant evidence of the sacramental ordinations of women as deacons in the Church, East and West, to the 12th century\u201d and that \u201ceventually a decision must be made.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001c3b6m1vjapqxr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Francis has also faced criticism recently for expressing what one Belgian Catholic university denounced as <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-francis-belgium-abuse-catholic-church-6d3a0d5baed8440193741c83de427b27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201creductive\u201d<\/a> views on the role of women in the church. In an interview earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/vatican\/vatican-news\/pope-francis-voices-firm-opposition-women-deacons-cbs-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this year, he ruled out the possibility of ordaining women deacons<\/a>, who can carry out functions like a priest apart from saying Mass and hearing confessions.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001d3b6mkliugtql@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The problem in the church is exacerbated given women make up a majority of churchgoers while an all-male hierarchy controls decision making. Furthermore, Catholic teaching bars women from ordination to the priesthood, a decision that Francis has maintained, although he has allowed studies of female deacons.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001e3b6mm45rfa4m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            During previous papacies the question of ordaining women was not even up for discussion. The big difference now is that the 87-year-old Argentinian pontiff has shown he is willing to listen carefully to the voices of Catholics.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001f3b6m13w5yo8e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a significant move, Francis, for the first time, said he would not issue a teaching document following the Vatican synod recommendations and approved their decisions, giving them added authority. \u201cIt\u2019s a revolution that no one notices,\u201d one cardinal told CNN afterwards about the pope\u2019s move.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm2rnpe77000t3b6m3yrurmln@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AP24300621820259.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24300621820259.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24300621820259.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24300621820259.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24300621820259.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24300621820259.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24300621820259.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Pope Francis attends the second session of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod at the Vatican on Saturday.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001g3b6m8vm15hrb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            During his pontificate, Francis has also been trying to make cracks in the Vatican\u2019s glass ceiling. He has chosen women to senior positions in the church\u2019s central administration, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/07\/europe\/pope-synod-appointment-intl-scli\/index.html\">a religious sister to help run the synod<\/a> and the first women members to sit on the board of a powerful Vatican department that decides on bishop appointments.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001h3b6mp750s9sx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For the first time, women were also included as voting members, with 54 female voters among more around 360 delegates. One of those was Julia Oseka, 23, who is studying theology and physics at St Joseph\u2019s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the youngest woman ever to be a voting member of a Vatican synod.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001i3b6m7rwfubmb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThere\u2019s definitely an urgent need to not only realize and accept that women have an equal baptismal dignity to men in the Catholic Church, but also to take action,\u201d she told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001j3b6m0fcjmx90@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Oseka added that while she sometimes felt \u201cfrustrated\u201d about the \u201cslow pace\u201d of decisions, some parts of the church \u201cstruggle\u201d when it comes to the inclusion of women, and it was important to maintain unity.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001k3b6m6np4odee@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Francis\u2019 approach is also informed by the resistance to any reform to women\u2019s roles: The declaration from the Vatican assembly on women received 97 \u201cno\u201d votes, the most of any section in the final document.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001l3b6m8vylxc92@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThere is resistance because there is still fear of this co-responsibility in the Catholic Church. But the participation and the role of the women is really a key issue,\u201d Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler, a church worker from Switzerland and voting delegate, told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001m3b6mwx0xu1ab@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She said the pope had recognized that the question of female deacons cannot be \u201cclosed\u201d and that it was important for the Catholic Church to send a message to the world where there is rising discrimination and violence against women.\u00a0 \u201cIf we don\u2019t take a strong stand, it\u2019s contradicting our own message,\u201d she said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001n3b6mlrq79dyw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For some, the pope and church leaders are not going far enough. \u201cWomen are looking for concrete changes and reforms that urgently recognize their equality,\u201d Kate McElwee, the executive director of Women\u2019s Ordination Worldwide, told CNN. \u201cHow much longer must women wait?\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2rpz2ib001o3b6m1pzj88fg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Nevertheless, for a church which thinks in centuries what may seem like small steps to those on the outside are major leaps forward for many inside.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/27\/europe\/pope-women-roles-vatican-church-intl\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119133\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}