Sister Elizabeth Davis has been a principal figure for decades in the Newfoundland and Labrador health-care system. The Roman Catholic nun is about to undertake a new adventure that is close to her original calling.
CBC NewsSister Elizabeth Davis of N.L. is making a historic and holy trip to RomeOne of only 54 women who will participate in October's General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, led by Pope Francis, Sister Elizabeth Davis says LBGTQ inclusivity is one of her top priorities.
While synods are common in other denominations, they have not been regularly held in the Roman Catholic Church. The very word "synod," a gathering — Pope Francis has redefined that as walking together. And even the image he chose for the synod shows people of different colours walking together, led by a child and an adolescent, with the Pope in the middle, not at the beginning or at the end. Older people, younger people, and connected with Earth as well.
So how do we walk together differently? So whether I'm walking with you as a man, whether I'm walking with you, as bisexual, whether I'm walking with you as indigenous, whether I'm walking with you as a homeless person…the point is we should be walking together. Our Earth is terribly vulnerable right now.
The documents that we've been given to work with…all speak to the need to look at women's place and role in the church very differently. To ensure that women's voices are heard, where decisions are made. That has troubled our church for many centuries. It troubles our society still today. It's not unique to our church, but we have been not among leaders in changing that…
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