To the question of ordaining women to the diaconate only one answer is possible.....

 "The Instrumentum Laboris carefully avoids the question of women's ordination".

The Swiss Catholic Women's Federation (SKF) sees some weak points in the working paper for the upcoming Synod of Bishops. In particular, in addition to compulsory celibacy, the topic of women's ordination is missing. This does not go, judges the women's federation.

"This worksheet carefully avoids the issue of women's ordination. But this concern cannot be pushed aside so easily. After all, the question is raised about the possibility of women's access to the diaconate - to which there can really only be one answer: Of course it must be possible! However, there must be no separate office or new offices only for women. The goal of efforts must be equal participation of the sexes in all offices."

This is what the SKF writes in its detailed statement on the "Instrumentum laboris." Their conclusion on this is that "The steps of listening, reflection and discernment are important - but if the church is to move credibly into the future, they must be followed by reasoned and comprehensible decisions and actions."

The SKF sent this statement to people who will participate in the Synod of Bishops: in particular Felix Gmür, President of the Swiss Bishops' Conference and Swiss delegate to the World Synod, Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler, member of the  "Catholic Equality Alliance" and European delegate to the World Synod, and Nathalie Becquart, Undersecretary of the Synod Secretariat in Rome. During the Synod of Bishops, Simone Curau-Aepli, President of the SCF, will also be active in Rome, the statement continues. Also Mentari Baumann of the "Catholic Equality Alliance".

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