Lapel Pin “Nun” Decides Who Runs the Church

She was literally born after the wreckage was being cleared in the 1968 Revolution 

Edit: Sister Natalie Becquart learned “ecclesiology” at Boston College, which is liberal even for Jesuit schools. She belongs to the Congregation of Xavières, which was also founded by a Jesuit. The order is of very recent vintage, 1921, and probably isn’t drinkable.

[Christopher Hale] Outside of Mary, the Mother of God, no woman today shapes how the Catholic Church governs itself more than Sr. Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops — the first woman ever appointed to that post.

After Pope Francis changed the synod rules in 2023 to allow non-bishops, including women, to be voting members, she became the first woman to cast a binding vote at a synod.

 She runs the levers of power for the body, setting the agenda, knitting together global consultations, and translating the Francis-Leo synodality agenda from theory into practice.

AMDG