Catholic synodal documents on women’s ordination since 1971. Can we speak of a partial or local expression of the sensus fidei fidelium?
(2026) The Synodal Conversation. The Momentum of the Church Rediscovered — 193-214, accepted/in-press
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- Since the Second Vatican Council, the emphasis on an ecclesiology of communion and of the People of God, as well as the reminder of the importance of the common priesthood and of the sensus fidei fidelium , have profoundly renewed synodal institutions. The 1983 Code of Canon Law regulated a reform of diocesan synods as well as particular and plenary councils. These governing bodies are major places for ecclesial discernment, each according to its own level of jurisdiction. It is therefore very significant for us to review what is expressed there and how it is expressed, on all subjects under debate in the Church. This is obviously the case for the possibility of women's ordination. The research refer to three types of documents: first, the acts of diocesan synods; second, the documents of assemblies on supradiocesan levels, and finally, a selection of documents published during the long consultation phase of the current Roman Synod of Bishops on synodality
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Join-Lambert, A. (2026). Catholic synodal documents on women’s ordination since 1971. Can we speak of a partial or local expression of the sensus fidei fidelium? In Ikenna OPALEKE, Annemarie MAYER (ed.), The Synodal Conversation. The Momentum of the Church Rediscovered (pp. 193-214). Aschendorff. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/274390