{"id":302472,"date":"2019-09-24T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=302472"},"modified":"2019-09-24T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:03:24","slug":"the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church…’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the conclusion of this piece from Phyllis Zagano in NCR:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Vatican released the\u00a0participants\u2019 list<\/a>\u00a0for the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon Region the other day.\u00a0All 185 synod votes belong to men.<\/p>\n

There is one voting lay person: Ecuadorian Holy Family Br. Miguel Angel\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez Antol\u00edn, one of 15 named by the men\u2019s Union of Superiors General. The 10 women religious nominated by the women\u2019s International Union of Superiors General (UISG) are in the back rows, with 45 other auditors.<\/p>\n

I get it. It\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0a synod of\u00a0bishops<\/em>, after all. But, in theory at least, superiors general of women\u2019s religious communities are equal to bishops. Like diocesan bishops, women superiors have jurisdiction over hundreds of women and control millions of dollars in funds and property. There are some 1,500 members of the International Union of Superiors General, giving leadership to more than 650,000 women religious and overseeing genuine mercy and ministry of the living church. Yet not one is a voting member of the synod.<\/p>\n

It was not always like this. Years ago, the abilities, intellects and legal authority of women were respected.<\/p>\n

Until the late 19th\u00a0century, there were abbesses who held absolute ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the people and lands of their territorial abbeys. These abbesses had the same authority as bishops. They gave priests faculties to hear confessions, to celebrate Mass, and to preach. They appointed chaplains and parish priests; they oversaw church legal proceedings; they ensured proper elections of religious superiors. You name it, these abbesses oversaw whatever is on your bishop\u2019s legal plate today. For 700 years, successive popes recognized, even increased, their authority, especially in France, Italy, Spain and Sweden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She also notes a \u201cblatant misogyny\u201d in the Church\u2019s history and concludes:<\/p>\n

The Catholic right is already in schism where it denies the teaching authority of the pope. Yet if both women deacons and married priests are not recommended by the synod, it could be game over.<\/p>\n

The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s the conclusion of this piece from Phyllis Zagano in NCR:\u00a0 The Vatican released the\u00a0participants\u2019 list\u00a0for the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon Region the other day.\u00a0All 185 synod votes belong to men. There is one voting lay person: Ecuadorian Holy Family Br. Miguel Angel\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez Antol\u00edn, one of 15 named by the men\u2019s Union of Superiors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":35006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,49,52],"tags":[690,893],"class_list":["post-302472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bishops","category-this-that","category-vocations","tag-phyllis-zagano","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"\n'The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church...'<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"That's the conclusion of this piece from Phyllis Zagano in NCR:\u00a0 The Vatican released the\u00a0participants' list\u00a0for the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"'The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church...'\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"That's the conclusion of this piece from Phyllis Zagano in NCR:\u00a0 The Vatican released the\u00a0participants' list\u00a0for the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Deacon's Bench\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-24T16:03:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2014\/09\/empty-church.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Deacon Greg Kandra\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Deacon Greg Kandra\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/\",\"name\":\"'The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church...'\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-24T16:03:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-09-24T16:03:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/7466606aa54639bf56a17705dcfc0970\"},\"description\":\"That's the conclusion of this piece from Phyllis Zagano in NCR:\u00a0 The Vatican released the\u00a0participants' list\u00a0for the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"‘The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church…’\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/\",\"name\":\"The Deacon's Bench\",\"description\":\"Where a Roman Catholic deacon ponders the world\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/7466606aa54639bf56a17705dcfc0970\",\"name\":\"Deacon Greg Kandra\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7332f32e3041fc2061e292186274b171?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7332f32e3041fc2061e292186274b171?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Deacon Greg Kandra\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/author\/deacon-greg-kandra\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"'The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church...'","description":"That's the conclusion of this piece from Phyllis Zagano in NCR:\u00a0 The Vatican released the\u00a0participants' list\u00a0for the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"'The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church...'","og_description":"That's the conclusion of this piece from Phyllis Zagano in NCR:\u00a0 The Vatican released the\u00a0participants' list\u00a0for the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/","og_site_name":"The Deacon's Bench","article_published_time":"2019-09-24T16:03:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2014\/09\/empty-church.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Deacon Greg Kandra","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Deacon Greg Kandra","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/","name":"'The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church...'","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-09-24T16:03:24+00:00","dateModified":"2019-09-24T16:03:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/7466606aa54639bf56a17705dcfc0970"},"description":"That's the conclusion of this piece from Phyllis Zagano in NCR:\u00a0 The Vatican released the\u00a0participants' list\u00a0for the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/the-schism-to-worry-about-is-the-one-where-all-the-women-leave-the-church\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"‘The schism to worry about is the one where all the women leave the Church…’"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/","name":"The Deacon's Bench","description":"Where a Roman Catholic deacon ponders the world","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/7466606aa54639bf56a17705dcfc0970","name":"Deacon Greg Kandra","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7332f32e3041fc2061e292186274b171?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7332f32e3041fc2061e292186274b171?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Deacon Greg Kandra"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/author\/deacon-greg-kandra\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}