Ralf Knoblauch

agosto 16, 2020

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Mary McAleese

mayo 12, 2020

The Church has a choice. Admit women to decision making and governance roles or discover their silence is not just because they are deliberately excluded but because they have gone away in righteous despair.

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Mukti Bosco

mayo 12, 2020

We need to talk openly and honestly about women in decision making roles in the Catholic Church

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Chantal Goetz

mayo 12, 2020

How many times did I ask myself within the last months: Why do I stay in this church that makes me more sick than healthy? I stay because I believe in justice! The catholic women who are working on the front lines, working with community and striving for social justice in places where women are overlooked and treated like second class citizens are my heroes. They represent for me the Catholic Church. They are the real Church! I am tired of the abuse of power by leaders in this church, tired of all the excuses why women should not be included in decision making positions and I will not accept any longer that my church drowns out women’s voices, make them unheard or silenced. I am more encouraged than ever to do whatever is needed to fight the unjust current systems in our church. Pope Francis, why do you not want the same?

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Teresa Forcades i Vila

mayo 12, 2020

Les dones han de poder accedir a tots els càrrecs de responsabilitat de l'Església. L´únic que ho impedeix es diu clericalisme i és una xacra gravíssima frontalmente contrária a l'evangeli que cal erradicar amb urgència. Women need to have access to all responsibility posts in the Church. The only thing stopping them from doing so is called clericalism and it is a very grave evil that runs contrary to the gospel and needs to be urgently eradicated.

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Kleinhans, Maria-Theresia

mayo 12, 2020

Frauen müssen endlich eine Stimme in der katholischen Kirche bekommen!

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Archbishop Emeritus Sylvain Lavoie OMI

mayo 12, 2020

Your Holiness, As an emeritus archbishop, I am kept quite busy giving missions and retreats in which I try to connect faith and life. I am finding when a space is created where it is safe to share, women especially open up with the pain they carry, often related to sexual abuse, feeling unheard and not valued within the church, and stifled by the patriarchal nature of the church. The example of the leadership of L’Arche in dealing with the scandal around their founder, Jean Vanier, in such a direct, transparent and responsible way, is an inspiration to me, and one I so much want to see in the leadership of our dear and wounded church. I feel compelled to add my voice to those women (and men) who are speaking out for a more equal and responsible role in the decision-making levels of the church, adding a richness of wisdom and experience and compassion of which the church has been denied far too long. Sincerely, in Christ, Archbishop Emeritus Sylvain Lavoie OMI

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Marcia D’cunha

mayo 12, 2020

We need to break the glass ceiling in the church and value the voices of women as decision makers.

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Charlotte Duff-Clarke

mayo 12, 2020

As a young person in the Catholic Church and a faith leader in my school, I strongly believe that women need to be heard and valued in our Church. Female leadership is crucial to the progression and continuation of our faith community.

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Virginia Saldanha

mayo 12, 2020

Please go back to the Equality practised by Jesus in his treatment of Women. Women were the bearers of The Word, His Word and the most fruitful Evangeliers

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Paola Lazzarini

mayo 12, 2020

We are descendants of an ancient tradition of women who have heard the liberating word of Jesus resound in their lives and have followed it. It is time for the Church to listen and recognize our voice, which sounds clear and powerful and calls for change.

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Tina Beattie

mayo 12, 2020

The Church cannot evangelise the modern world without being a sign of hope for women. This means honouring our full and equal dignity as humans made in the image of God and baptismally incorporated into the body of Christ, where "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Gal. 3:28)

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Bishop Vincent Long

mayo 12, 2020

Until we have truly incorporated the gift of women and the feminine dimension of our Christian faith, we will not be able to fully energise the life of the Church.

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Lana Bobić

mayo 29, 2020

Since God has created human beign, man and woman to his image, we need to reflect that image in all the structures that we build in Church if we want those structures to reflect the image of God, which is our mission. And that requires gender equality. We, women, are here to help the Chirch heal the world and live in Christ. Please stop rejecting our real talents and possibilities and let us be who we are outside the idea of who we should be according to men. Please listen to us.

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Franziska Strohmayr

mayo 29, 2020

Gleichberechtigung ist keine Frage der Tradition, Gleichberechtigung ist Menschenwürde

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Nontando Hadebe

mayo 29, 2020

There is an African proverb that says 'a weaning baby that does not cry aloud will die on its mother's back' Many of us have seen pictures of African mothers carrying their babies on their backs and so the proverb encourages the child to cry and make a noise if it is experiencing discomfort or any threats. Women in the church have been rewarded for being silence and submissive to ecclesial authority even when it is harmful to their well being, dignity and flourishing. Women receive contradictory messages related to their identity as equal because they too share the imago Dei made in the image of God and at the same time are unequal and excluded from equal participation in all structures and leadership position in the churches. The voices of women have been muted and their histories of participation in leadership roles has been downplayed or erased as is the case of the role of Mary Magdalene. The silencing of women and denial of equal participation has life and death implications. During the HIV pandemic many women who were faithful to their partners died and children were left as orphans because of the refusal of the church to allow women to protect themselves through use of condoms. The World Health Organization has described intimate partner violence as a global health crisis of epidemic proportions. The culture of silence in the home extends to the church where many women continue to keep silent in the face of abuses that include sexual but not limited to sexual - to be excluded, voiceless, spoken for, denied access to decision making and ecclesial offices because of simply being women violates the dignity of women. Often church teachings operate in isolation from each other for example Catholic Social Teaching that affirms dignity of all, preferential option for the poor, solidarity and subsidiarity is not applied to women who comprise majority of the poor, those denied human dignity and excluded in decision making positions. In African context national, regional and pan-African institutions promote gender equality but their efforts are being hindered by churches and cultural teachings that continue to support the marginalization, inferiorizing of women in the face of multiple threats to life. Like the weaned baby, women will 'die' at multiple level if they remain silent!

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