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The thrust of catholic feminism

2022-03-21T04:21:28.765Z


Various networks advocate an improvement in structures by demanding from the Vatican a more relevant role for women in the ecclesial institution.


An international movement of Catholic women, empowered by the MeToo tide, has been committed for years to women's access to decision-making within the Church.

Traditionally limited to dealing with social issues—such as helping refugees, homeless people, or trafficked women—they now want their own rights recognized.

They demand that sexual abuse of minors and religious be judged, that unions of same-sex couples be blessed and that women be able to order mass.

His dogma is: without changes in the structures, the dynamics will not change.

In March last year, two weeks after the Vatican banned the blessing of same-sex couples, five Catholic feminist organizations from Germany, Switzerland and Austria took to the streets.

For Chantal Götz, co-director of the Voices of Faith network, that was "a big step for the Vatican to realize the rejection by the bases of this type of decision."

Voices of Faith was born in 2013 within the Holy See to extol the work of women in the Church.

But there was no room for criticism of the structures.

In 2018 they ran into the rejection of the institutions when organizing LGTBIQ conferences and decided to leave the Vatican.

“We gained freedom.

0.1% of white male clerics decide what to do and the rest we have to follow”, exclaims Götz.

According to Pepa Moleón, a member of the Revolt of Women in the Church —a Spanish platform in tune with the Voices of Faith networks and the Catholic Women's Council—, “we Catholics in civil life have achieved the right to decide, but in the Church we continue being second-class citizens.

The Catholic feminist movement is especially strong in Germany, where you have to pay a tax to become a member of the Church.

The María 2.0 organization was created two years ago by five women as a result of the sexual abuse that shook the country;

today it has more than 60 branches and they are mobilized for the recognition of LGTBIQ relations, the abolition of compulsory celibacy and the incorporation of women priests.

Angela Kieserg, a member of Maria 2.0, insists that this is not a German inbred issue: "Many women, from India to South America, ask us to keep fighting."

Those responsible for these networks, devoid of hierarchies, with a grassroots vocation and that carry out joint actions, say they do not want to demolish the Church, but rather make it a better place.

Although some believe that it is not worth focusing the fight on the institutions, they are mobilized alongside those who assure that noise is important to reform the Vatican.

“At Maria 2.0 we are pessimistic about the Synodal Way [a process initiated by Pope Francis to transform the Church].

However, most of our members participate in it”, summarizes Kieserg.

In October of this year, the ecclesiastical sorority will take to the streets of Rome.

They hope that the Holy See will not leave them behind and thus prevent the Church itself from disappearing.

“People are angry.

We are becoming more mature, we are growing up, and we no longer behave like sleeping sheep”, proclaims Götz.

Source: elparis

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