The move is being hailed as a 'significant crack in the stained glass ceiling' of the Church.
The reforms are part of efforts by Pope Francis to give women greater representation within the Catholic ChurchThe Pope will for the first time allow women to vote at an influential global meeting of bishops in October - a move that has been welcomed as a historic first.
The US-based Women's Ordination Conference, which advocates for women priests, has called the reform "a significant crack in the stained glass ceiling". In a further break with tradition, Pope Francis announced that voting rights would also be extended to 70 hand-picked non-clerical members of the religious community, moving the synod away from being a meeting solely of the Church hierarchy.
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