Webinar meeting of the WUCWO School for Synodality, which asks about the state of play of women's participation and visibility in the synodal journey, a few days before the opening of the second session of the Synod on Synodality.

Thursday, 26 September at 14.30 CEST

On 26 September, a webinar in 4 languages, entitled "Voices and Faces at the threshold of the Synod" will be held, promoted by the School for Synodality of the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations.

The dialogue will include the participation of:

• Julia Oseka, Synodal Mother
• Barbara Dowding, WUCWO Regional Vice President for North America
• Elisa Delgado Cabrera, Commissioner for Formation of the Mexican Catholic Women's Union

Video interviews with some of the women and men participating in the Synod will also be presented on this occasion.

"In n. 57 of the Instrumentum Laboris that was prepared for the second Synod Assembly, They made us a proposal aimed towards formation, to get to know the tasks that women can already carry out in the Church today. Well, it seems to me to be a good initiative, but I believe that we can run the risk of remaining only in knowledge and what we have to do is to take steps so that these tasks can become a reality, and above all I believe that we have to ensure that they become normality within our Church." Says Eva Fernández, special guest at the Synodal Assembly and Coordinator of the International Forum of Catholic Action, protagonist of one of the video interviews to be presented.

The WUCWO School for Synodality, through its activities and projects, has achieved:

• Training more than 250 women synod facilitators in more than 49 countries
• 5 conversations in the spirit organised in 90 groups involving a total of 680 women from 80 different countries

From these conversations, seven strategic trajectories emerged on which we are all invited to focus our attention, also and above all, after the Synod session is over:

1. Participation, leadership, and empowerment of women in the Church
2. Formation of women, as well as a change in the formation of priests
3. Expanding, diversifying, and strengthening women´s role in the Church
4. Gender injustice in the Church: experiences of women's exclusion
5. Changing certain structures and recognising the work of women in the Church
6. Recognition of the specific gifts of women for the church community
7. Transforming abuses of power into fruitful collaboration between men and women

To participate please register at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ct8pBih9SwKvQhUKXCm2Yg#/registration