Pope Francis gives women historic right to vote at meeting

The 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 new rules announced on Wednesday will give five religious sisters voting rights at the synod, which is a papal advisory body. In the past, women were only allowed to attend the gathering as observers.

Men will still cast the majority of the votes at the influential gathering.

(BBC)