The Only Female Cleric at the Synod

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Best Mass and most intimate I have been to is with 8 ppl and a Bishop.

I attend Latin Mass, (it’s on every Sunday) vernacular Mass, Mass in tiny rural churches, Mass at the Cathedral, lots of different Masses with different Priests, around the Diocese, but that Mass really had something. Second best was again with a Bishop at a tiny 10 pew , rural church.
 
Keep reading 😎. She does sound like a pretty impressive and well educated woman. But do you notice she is sitting alone
 
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The Orthodox Churches all do believe in that unity. They just believe everyone else has left that unity.
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I agree with this statement. I was simply wondering if the Eastern Churches were present too?
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After closing looking at the article, looks like Constantinople has a representative, but Moscow and Alexandra might not
 
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Keep reading 😎. She does sound like a pretty impressive and well educated woman. But do you notice she is sitting alone
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I’m sure there are only a few who are happy she’s there. The further I read, the more concerned I become. She proudly reinforces her view of female ordination and is on a subgroup discussing whether women can become deacons!

Why is that even being discussed at the Youth Synod?
 
I don’t get why she was eating alone till one of the bishops asked to join her.
Why not go up to a table of them, introduce herself and ask to join? I doubt they would all leave the table.
 
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I don’t get why she was eating alone till one of the bishops asked to join her.
Why not go up to a table of them, introduce herself and ask to join? I doubt they would all leave the table
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She explains that she is introverted. Introverts don’t find that easy.
 
It seems odd to me that they would select an introvert to be in a highly visible role at a synod that is all about networking and forming relationships. I’m sure they had other people available who could have served as representative. It seems to have worked out for her in the end, but it also makes me think she was perhaps not the best person for the task.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
It seems odd to me that they would select an introvert to be in a highly visible role at a synod that is all about networking and forming relationships. I’m sure they had other people available who could have served as representative. It seems to have worked out for her in the end, but it also makes me think she was perhaps not the best person for the task
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I imagine there are quite a few introverts at the Synod, Lots of people are introverts, you know. And since it worked out for her in the end, perhaps she was indeed the best person for the task.

Odd that folk here should be so engaged with the subject of the WCC observer. There are dozens of observers, as I understand it, and she is by no means the only woman present, thank goodness (or thank His Holiness, I should perhaps say).
 
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Odd that folk here should be so engaged with the subject of the WCC observer. There are dozens of observers, as I understand it
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I don’t have a problem with observers. But as with anything the issue is what the point of it is. What is the point of having the WCC observe? And what is the message being sent to Catholics and non Catholics?
 
What I don’t understand is why she was invited. It is a synod of Roman Catholic bishops; obviously she isn’t one. So is she then simply one of the “young people” that are there to represent… young people? If so, why is she presenting herself as clergy? What I mean is: are there any priests present from other denominations? Are there EO priests present? OO? Protestant ministers? I’ve not heard of that at all. So why then a “priestess” from these Hussites at the synod?
 
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Odd that folk here should be so engaged with the subject of the WCC observer. There are dozens of observers, as I understand it, and she is by no means the only woman present, thank goodness
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The article says she is the only female cleric there. That’s why people are interested. I’m presuming the other women aren’t clerics, or else I’m missing something here.
 
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What I don’t understand is why she was invited. It is a synod of Roman Catholic bishops; obviously she isn’t one. So is she then simply one of the “young people” that are there to represent… young people? If so, why is she presenting herself as clergy? What I mean is: are there any priests present from other denominations? Are there EO priests present? OO? Protestant ministers? I’ve not heard of that at all. So why then a “priestess” from these Hussites at the synod?
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As the article said:
The fraternal delegates who represent other Christian churches can make interventions in the synod aula and participate in small group discussions, but they cannot vote. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has a delegate, as do ecclesial organizations like the World Lutheran Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the World Methodist Council
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Setting aside the fact that not all Catholic youth are into traditional practice or have even stepped foot into a traditional Mass, I said “interested”, and I’m sure your TLM youth are interested from a standpoint of opposing such a development.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
The article says she is the only female cleric there. That’s why people are interested
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But if the Pope invites observers from churches outside Catholicism, the presence of a woman minister is quite likely, isn’t it?
 
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