Rome: Excluded from the meeting In the election of the new pope on Wednesday, more widely selected from the entire global clergy of the church – some Catholic women were determined to hear their voices.
In the park on the hill, overlooking the dome of the St. Peters and the Vatican headquarters of the church, activists released pink smoke from the flares and asked women to be allowed to seek the sacrament.
“We said to the Cardinal, you can't always ignore 50% of the Catholic population, you can't go into a locked room and discuss the future of the church without half the church,” Miriam Duignan said.
Duignan of the Wijngaards Institute in Cambridge said: “Whether they elect need to be brave enough to correctly address the inclusion of women, because so far, even Pope Francis has not.”
Duignan was briefly detained in 2011 after trying to enter the Vatican petition to support a pastor who supported the cause of radicals.
If radicals raise Wednesday's protests – a tribute to the black and white smoke used by the Holy See to announce the vote – they believe similar fates will await them.
“Whenever we go to St. Peter’s Square, we are detained by police…and we certainly are not invited to the conference game.”
“In the next few days, the only 133 men will see the nuns who are cleaning the room, providing them with food and tidying up behind them.”
The Cardinal’s meeting behind closed doors at Sistine Church on Wednesday will not hear any female views during the expected deliberations and conducted multiple rounds of votes.
The only women they would see before the White Smoke rose to decide to make a decision were nuns who cooked, cleaned and served in the Santa Mata hotel.
Throughout the global church, women began to play some senior positions, a process accelerated a little under the Pope Francis’s Pope.
But even those who study theology and church ministry are excluded from clergy, and only pastors hold the highest leadership position.
“Yes, Pope Francis has been promoted and promoted to a responsible role, but his status and authority are always lower than men,” Duniyan said.
“Even the smallest priest in the room is the boss of the oldest, experienced woman.”
“Sin and Scandal”
The campaigners said women played the same worship role before the early church, medieval reforms, in Duniyan’s words: “The men who entered the Sistine Church this afternoon knew this, and they didn’t want everyone else to know it.”
Kate McElwee, executive director of the Women's Diocese Conference Movement Group, described it as an injustice and “crisis” of the church.
“While the world may be waiting for white or black smoke, we’re bringing out pink smoke because we hope the church will welcome women equally one day,” she said.
French activist Gabrielle Fidelin called it “a sin and scandal, and women were detained in priests and meetings.”
According to Duignan, even though Francis was relatively improved for 12 years, only one of the 133 cardinal voters isolated at the conference took a positive stance on the appointment of women in the Francis’ 12-year tenet.
And if he finds out that he is fired from the party, she is reluctant to identify him by name.
Although this was once a taboo issue, the meeting was aired at the Bishops' Conference, including female members, under Francis.
Last October, Francis approved a Labor party to study the idea of allowing women to become deacons—a report was released after a step ahead of the clergy.
It acknowledged that “the issue of women’s access to the religious ministry of Diavin is still open”, but concluded that it was too early to make a decision.
