The eternal debate put aside by Pope Francis – Liberation
On the interactive map of Women’s Ordination Conference, the American feminist organization behind a (global) strike by Catholic women, the movement appears very followed in the United States, England, Spain or Germany or Switzerland. What about France? She still looks a bit lagging behind. To read the map, there would be little in Paris and in Lyon that the French Catholics participate in this action aimed at denouncing the invisibilization of women in the Church and the weak advances on this file during the Pontificate of François. Questioned by Releasethe theologian Sylvaine Landrivon, co-president of the skirt committee, a feminist association relaying the strike, also mentions some active groups in Nantes, Saintes and La Rochelle.
« The idea of this strike emerged last fall during the Synod in Rome », she explains. In the Vatican, some 356 people (bishops, theologians, laity, nuns, etc.) gathered for three weeks in order to develop the mode of governance of the Catholic Church and reflect on its decentralization. The place of women was to be one of the major subjectsin particular the very controversial question of female diaconate. Can we or not order women as deacon,
