Women will be allowed to join men and vote on proposals, following decades of demands by females for the right
Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops, an unprecedented change that reflects his hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities.
At the end of the meetings, the bishops vote on specific proposals and put them to the pope, who then produces a document taking their views into account.But under the new changes, five religious sisters will join five priests as voting representatives for religious orders. “It’s an important change, it’s not a revolution,” said Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, a top organizer of the synod.
Cardinal Mario Grech, who is in charge of the synod, stressed that with the changes, some 21% of the gathered representatives at the October meeting will be non-bishops, with half of that group women.
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