By Hannah Brockhaus, CNA - The Synodal Way, which began in 2019, is a collaborative effort between the Central Committee of German Catholics/German bishops’ conference... During a concluding assembly in March, delegates overwhelmingly passed measures to change Church practices based on transgender ideology and to push the universal Church to ordain women to the sacramental diaconate... Delegates also voted to adopt same-sex blessings, normalize lay preaching, and ask Rome to “reexamine” the discipline of priestly celibacy.