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How To Become A Synodal Parish

If you want to bring synodality to your parish, we will schedule a time to offer this. If there is sufficient interest, we may offer this more than once.

In the spirit of synodalidy, on Saturday, November 23, the int’l networks are sponsoring an online event guiding local parish communities into suggested ways for involving the whole community in the selection of bishops and pastors.

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Vaticanelle

VATICANELLE is a parody with seven Women bishops and Pope Sister Martha in a Synod of Bishops discussing if men could be ordained. After a long discussion a clear decision is made:

Ad Experimentum suitable men will be ordained as priests and deacons in those communities that wish to take this opportunity.

The motion is approved by a vote 6 – 2.

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The Holy Shakeup Comes to Rome

Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP ordained three priests: Belen Repiso Carrillo from Spain, and Anne Malloy La Tour and Mary Katherine Daniels from the United States and t hree deacons Loan Rocher from France, and Maria Teresa Ribeiro Rosa and Txus Garcia Pascual from Spain on the Dram, a boat, anchored on the Tiber River.

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Reports from the Ground in Rome

The highlight of the presentations during the We Are Church Int’l meetings was Vaticanelle – parady play of an all female hierarchy weighing the requests from men to be accepted into the prieshood.

Meetings Too!

The meetings were led by Colm Holmes and Martha Heizer and included We are Church Germany, Austria, Italy, Ireland, UK, Scotland, Pakistan, and U.S. among others.

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Becoming a Synodal Church

It is our hope that Synod delegates will be emboldened by the Gospel to advocate for women’s equality and gender equity so that a path toward credible synodality can be initiated at this Synod with the urgency it requires. Guided by the Holy Spirit, may it be so.

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Women and Equality

Fear that the topic of Women's Equality will be brushed aside indefinitely Today is the official opening of the 2024 Synod. There is no doubt that Women's Equality is on the minds and in the hearts of the vast majority of concerned Catholics around the world. And the...

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Oceana Continental Report

Synodality is alive and well in Oceana.

People appreciated the opportunity to be heard and took seriously their call to share roles and act co-responsibly, and the opportunity to review existing structures.
There is a strong sense of the church being a vehicle for empowerment of peoples to address critical issues and improve the well-being of all.

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Report on the Empowerment of Local Church Communities

The 2023 Synthesis Report encourages more involvement of the laity and the entire community in discernment and decision making within their own community. To further explore this topic, this was a panel presentation on just three of the ways for the laity to participate in the decision-making in their community and sharing best practices where this is already being implemented.

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Latin American Continental Report

We have been gifted with information from three prominent Latin American reformers involved in Church and societal reform: Fr. Peter Hughes, Birgit Weiller, MM, and Olga Consuelo Vélez. It is important to note that 40% of the world’s Catholics live in Latin America.

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Agenda Priorities for 2nd Assembly of the Synod on Synodality

CCRI wishes to expand on its views submitted in May 2024 on the agenda items for the Second Session of the Synod on Synodality. The most significant feature of this report is that it was truly a consensus of cross-generational, cross-continental, and, of course, cross-cultural reflections of Catholics, both practicing and no longer practicing.

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The Synod on Synodality

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News from Around the World to December 2015

Events where CCR Int'l or our friends and partners were directly involved: December 6, 2015 - Virginia Saldanha, India A Vision of the Church for the Future October 12, 2015 - from James Katoor, India Feeling One with the Church April 26, 2015 - from James Katoor,...

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