/ricerca/ansaen/search.shtml?any=
Show less

Se hai scelto di non accettare i cookie di profilazione e tracciamento, puoi aderire all’abbonamento "Consentless" a un costo molto accessibile, oppure scegliere un altro abbonamento per accedere ad ANSA.it.

Ti invitiamo a leggere le Condizioni Generali di Servizio, la Cookie Policy e l'Informativa Privacy.

Puoi leggere tutti i titoli di ANSA.it
e 10 contenuti ogni 30 giorni
a €16,99/anno

  • Servizio equivalente a quello accessibile prestando il consenso ai cookie di profilazione pubblicitaria e tracciamento
  • Durata annuale (senza rinnovo automatico)
  • Un pop-up ti avvertirà che hai raggiunto i contenuti consentiti in 30 giorni (potrai continuare a vedere tutti i titoli del sito, ma per aprire altri contenuti dovrai attendere il successivo periodo di 30 giorni)
  • Pubblicità presente ma non profilata o gestibile mediante il pannello delle preferenze
  • Iscrizione alle Newsletter tematiche curate dalle redazioni ANSA.


Per accedere senza limiti a tutti i contenuti di ANSA.it

Scegli il piano di abbonamento più adatto alle tue esigenze.

'Fierce' debate on women deacons

'Fierce' debate on women deacons

Says Church divided on issue of whether women should serve

Rome, 13 May 2016, 14:22

ANSA Editorial

ANSACheck

- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

-     ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, on Friday said that Pope Francis's decision to open a panel on the possibility of women serving as deacons within the Roman Catholic Church will bring a "fierce confrontation" within the Church.
    The cardinal spoke in an interview in Italian daily La Repubblica, and said "on this issue the Church is divided in two".
    He said he doesn't believe, however, that if women served as deacons it would be the first step towards women serving in the priesthood.
    "The pope has said that this door is closed, after the very clear words of John Paul II on the 'no' to female priesthood. I can't imagine that Francis would change that decision," Cardinal Kasper said.
    Lower House Speaker Laura Boldrini on Friday called the panel a "momentous decision" and said it's "redemption for the Catholic women who want to have a role within the Church".
    "But let's not call them women deacons, but deaconesses," she said.
    Paola Binetti, a Catholic MP with the small centrist Area Popolare (AP) party, said the decision "will surely make an important step forward but without coming to an assimilation of the priesthood. "Francis has said that for these women there could be a benediction but not a consecration. Which means that the expansion of the feminine role in the Church will follow a different way than the canonical one, which leads to the priesthood and then to the episcopate," she said.
    "Let's not forget, however, that 99% of the work of mercy that the Church does passes through the heart, the intelligence and the organisational capacities of women".
    Binetti said that leadership roles for women become more scarce at the upper levels both within the Church as well as outside the Church, such as in politics.
    "Even Renzi, when he chose his government, was very attentive to gender equality, but when it was time to replace (Federica) Mogherini and (Federica) Guidi to guide two important ministries, he replaced them with two men".
   

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA

Not to be missed

Share

Or use

ANSA Corporate

If it is news,
it is an ANSA.

We have been collecting, publishing and distributing journalistic information since 1945 with offices in Italy and around the world. Learn more about our services.