Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
The International Survey of Catholic Women (McEwan, McPhillips, Pepper, 2023) reported that 29% of respondents strongly agreed or agreed that without reform there was no place for them in the Catholic Church. What reforms are women seeking? Do they correlate with the outcomes of the Final Document of the Synod on Synodality? In Australia Catholic Church efforts to listen to women have a long history, yet little has changed. Are there reasons to hope that synodality can deliver these long called for reforms? If the practice of synodality listens without responding with demarginalizing action, will it become a trigger for an escalation in disaffiliation and deconversion of women from the Catholic Church?