VATICAN CITY — Delegates from across the globe are converging on Vatican Metropolis for the opening of an unprecedented meeting seen as a part of the broadest session on the course of the religion because the Nineteen Sixties.
For the primary time, lay folks with voting rights — together with ladies — shall be collaborating in a synod, the church’s main consultative physique and a discussion board beforehand reserved for senior clerics. This meeting shall be adopted by a second one in October 2024, after which a set of suggestions are anticipated to go to the pope.