For centuries,women voices have been excluded from the Catholic Church. In fact, when some women have tried to speak up, they have been silenced. God created all of us, women and men in his image and likeness but in this patriarchal church, women’s wisdom and spirituality are ignored and suppressed. This is the reason so many women have left the Church and those of us who are still in the Church are very tentative about staying because of the oppression we experience as women.
The People Speak Out
Local voices connecting globally
This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good. (Pope Francis) |
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Canon Law 212 calls upon the laity to speak up:2 - The Christian faithful are free to make known to the pastors of the Church their needs, especially spiritual ones, and their desires.§3. - According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons. |
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