Why is women’s humanity ‘open to discussion’ in Catholic Church?
Delegates take part in the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, at Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on October 13, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
Did you know that the Catholic Church is having a Synod on Synodality? The Church holds sway over 1.6 billion souls, more or less. This makes it a significant organisation that should not be left out of the public gaze, due to its reach and influence. Bad things happen when powerful institutions are free from oversight. Like the Spanish Inquisition.
The Synod is basically a big old conference on how Catholics can be together as a church in the 21st Century. Preparations for this meeting started years ago, and there was some consultation at the grassroots level about various issues that the Church wants to tackle. That’s right: the primo patriarchy is secretly kind of democratic.
