Vatican won’t say if women can vote in 2023 church meeting

Girls have lengthy complained that they’ve a second-class standing within the Catholic Church, regardless of doing the lion’s share of its work educating in Catholic faculties, operating Catholic hospitals and passing the religion onto future generations. Francis has appointed a handful of ladies, together with Becquart, to high-ranking Vatican positions and has known as for girls to have a larger decision-making position in church governance, however he has upheld church doctrine barring girls from the priesthood.