The Synodal Pathway: Good News for Catholic Women

The Catholic Church has embarked on a two-year synodal pathway towards the Synod of Bishops on synodality in 2023. Women’s submissions to the synodal process must be made “as public as possible” in order to prevent any attempt to airbrush them out, theologian and broadcaster, Professor Tina Beattie said at a webinar hosted by the Tablet. The retired Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Roehampton said making submissions public would ensure that “if our voices are airbrushed out, or if the things we say that they don't like are airbrushed out, we can say this is not discernment. It is censorship”. Natalie K. Watson, Publishing Editor of the Pastoral Review, was in conversation with Tina Beattie, Penelope Middelboe, author and podcaster, Daisy Srblin, chief executive of the Catholic charity Million Minutes, and Dr Alana Harris, director of Liberal Arts and Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at King’s College, London, about synodality and the experience of women in the Catholic Church.

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