Posted on 03/04/2026 6:56:59 PM PST by ebb tide
The General Secretariat of the Synod has published a preliminary report urging that women’s “views and assessments” be given due weight in the discernment of candidates for priesthood and warning against seminary models that separate future priests from the ordinary life of the people of God. The proposals are not definitive and have been forwarded to Pope Leo XIV for review.
The text gathers conclusions from a synod study group tasked with examining priestly formation in a synodal key.
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There has always been women’s input; it’s called mom.
There has been women’s input in the US for decades.
Some women in the diocese and seminary offices were gatekeepers against conservative and traditionally-minded men, called them too rigid and unsuited for a pastoral role. Part of the process that led to a wishy washy church.
I think women should have input - but not those who want to hollow out the church and remake it to the whims of the age.
Women reared every freakin seminarian for 20+ years.
Feminists want a crack at them, having not reared any or their own kids well.
Seminarians need to get tougher, not gentler. These are the sweetest most agreeable bunch of guys, hilariously so. They need sword fighting, because fighting satan alone is what they will do everyday for the rest of their lives.
They don’t need hugs, they need buds. Buddies. Men.
But the men are busy with fanilies or porn.
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