2023-04-26 14:02:43
In the future, up to 80 non-bishops can take part in the World Synods of Bishops, at the World Synods of Bishops – at least half of them should be women
Vatican City (KAP) – At global synods in the Vatican, women and men who are not clergy or religious will in future also be able to consult and vote on an equal footing. Cardinals Mario Grech and Jean-Claude Hollerich, who are responsible for the current world synod, announced this on Wednesday in the Vatican. So far, only bishops and the leaders of religious orders have had the right to vote at the regular meetings in Rome. Catholic lay people might only be consulted as advisors (auditors).
In the future, up to 80 non-bishops will be able to take part in the World Synods of Bishops, five of them women religious and five men religious. At least half of the remaining 70 non-bishops are to be women. When presenting the changes, Hollerich and Grech emphasized that despite these innovations, the synod of bishops would remain a synod of bishops in the canonical sense.
The World Synod of Bishops is the organ in which the worldwide college of bishops gives binding advice to the pope. It was approved by Pope Paul VI in 1965. created. The assemblies can pass resolutions with a two-thirds majority, which the pope can, but does not have to, adopt in a so-called post-synodal letter as binding church doctrine.
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