On Wednesday, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis will allow women to vote in the upcoming meeting of the bishops for the first time.
The majority of the participants in the meeting will remain bishops, but an additional 70 "non-bishop members have been added," of which "it is requested that 50 percent of them be women and that the presence of young people also be emphasized," the document outlining the norms governing the synod stated, according to the New York Times.
These members "will have the right to vote."
Five nuns will join five clerics to represent religious orders and will be allowed to vote. The Vatican said that the pope can also add other participants.
In previous synods, Women had participated as auditors.
At 2018 meeting, leaders of groups advocating for the advancement of women in leadership roles in the Catholic Church protested at the Vatican, demanding that women be given the right to vote “as equals alongside their brothers in Christ.”
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