Posted on 05/13/2019 8:01:49 PM PDT by marshmallow
German Catholic women have launched a weeklong boycott by suspending voluntary work in churches. Their protest has crystallized fury over a male-only priesthood and bishops' foot-dragging on sex scandals.
A grassroots Catholic women's movement - using the motto of the Virgin Mary who should be given her voice - launched a week of disobedient non-service on Saturday - with the backing of major lay organizations and even singular bishops.
The women planned to hold rites outside churches, without priests, and withhold services inside parishes until May 18 at least 50 locations to back their call that the Vatican open the priesthood to women and drop celibacy.
Left undone will be attendances at mass and committees, parish housework and the liturgical readings – tasks left typically to regular churchgoing women. The central protest will be outdoors in the northwestern city of Münster on Sunday.
Message lost amid scandal
One of the initiators, Andrea Voss-Frick, said the Maria 2.0 movement – conceived early this year at a women's parish bible meeting in Münster, a hub of German Catholicism – had received endorsement from Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. The Virgin Mary is referred to as Maria in German.
The impulse came as the initiators realized that the Vatican's pronouncement and church teachings of hope "didn't come across at all" amid abuse and cover-ups, said Voss-Frick.
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If the work in your Church is left to women such as these, you don’t really have a Church.
Perfect example of why women don’t belong in politics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTSt-A2Cls&t=16s
Correct.
Ladies, if you want to protest an error made by your Church leaders I would propose protesting your leaderships support for importing young Muslim men who rape your daughters.
If they wish to raise a ruckus about the abuse of children by priests within the church I am all for it. They are still dragging their feet in many places, sheltering the guilty.
But for lay workers to demand that women must be priests too, just because you say so, is kinda silly. That's decided a couple pay grades above yours and if you wish to press your luck your duties of pushing a broom or similar can be done by others less troublesome.
Yes, Frauen, invoke the Blessed Mother in your demands, since she insisted that she should be pope instead of St. Peter.
They have Christian’s in Germany?
Wow...they are really off the rails.
A new protestant revolt, how revolting.
That said how is Munster a “hub” of Catholicism? When I lived there the south was where the Catholics were. Did the people move?
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