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Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary at the Synod of Bishops’ general secretariat, delivered an online PowerPoint presentation to New Ways Ministry, which promotes homosexual and transgender rights in the Church, on April 3.VATICAN CITY — A recent lecture given by a high-level member of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops to a dissenting American organization has been criticized as “simply wrong” and part of a concerted effort to influence the current worldwide Synod on Synodality to legitimize the homosexual agenda in the Church. Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary at the Synod of Bishops’ general secretariat responsible for coordinating all...

[Catholic Caucus] Holy Spirit is guiding church on synod, Vatican official tells LGBTQ groupXavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, is pictured in the chapel at her office at the Vatican Jan. 5, 2022. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)WASHINGTON, D.C. — The “main protagonist” in the Catholic Church’s two-year synodal process now underway “is the Holy Spirit, who is ready to guide us on this journey,” Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart told a U.S. audience April 3.“The aim of a synod is to foster communion and build a consensus,” Becquart said to an audience made up primarily of...

Pope Francis raised Sr. Nathalie Becquart to top position in the Holy SeeVATICAN (ChurchMilitant.com) - Sister Nathalie Becquart, the first woman appointed by Pope Francis to a voting position in the Vatican, is endorsing a radical Catholic LGBTQ+ campaign group that defies Church teaching on homosexuality and gender ideology. Becquart, one of the highest-ranking nuns in the Holy See, will deliver the 2022 Fr. Robert Nugent Memorial Lecture organized by the New Ways Ministry, a dissident group promoting same-sex "marriage" and transgenderism in the Church. Titled "Synodality: A Path of Reconciliation," the April lecture will explore how the Synod on...

Considered to be one of the most influential women at the Vatican, Becquart is optimistic about gender equality in the institution.VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Amid Pope Francis’ attempts to reform the hierarchical structures that have defined the Roman Catholic Church for centuries — structures that have in many ways limited the influence of lay people and especially women — few have had such a decisive say on shaping the future of the institution as Sister Nathalie Becquart. In February, the pope named the French religious sister of the Congregation of Xavières to become the undersecretary of the General Secretariat of...

Pope’s pick says ‘clericalist mindset is changing’Sr Nathalie Becquart (CNS/Paul Haring)A French sister who could be the first woman to cast a vote in the Synod of Bishops says her appointment as an undersecretary is evidence the “clericalist mindset is changing”. Source: Crux.Sr Nathalie Becquart told journalists on Wednesday that Pope Francis has been underlining the importance of including women in the decision-making processes, helping move the Church from a clericalist attitude towards a more synodal one.“How can we somehow end with a clerical Church, where there have been abuses, of power and other kind of abuses,” she asked, during...

Sr Nathalie Becquart: "a sign of confidence for women in the Church"Sister Nathalie Becquart reacts to her appointment as an Under-secretary of the Synod of Bishops.By Vatican News staff reporterSr Nathalie Becquart, who was appointed by Pope Francis on Saturday as one of two Under-Secretaries to the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, has spoken of her delight, saying it is a call to “serve the Universal Church”.The French woman religious also told Vatican News’ Marine Henriot, that she felt as if she is on the “edge of a new adventure with many things to discover”.Describing her mission as...