Catholic Feminists Release Pink Smoke Over The Vatican In Protest Of Male-Only Conclave

Protestia ^ | May 8, 2025 | staff

[Morgana]

A group of self-described “Feminist Catholics” released clouds of pink smoke into the sky on a hill overlooking the Vatican on Wednesday, protesting the lack of female involvement in the choosing of a new pope and calling for the Church to reconsider its ban on women’s ordination.

The demonstration, timed just hours before an all-male conclave to select a new pope, was led by activists from the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC).

Founded in 1975, they are the “oldest and largest organization working to ordain women as deacons, priests, & bishops into an inclusive and accountable Roman Catholic Church.”

Chanting “smoke out sexism,” the protesters aimed to send a “distress signal” to the Roman Catholic Church’s leadership, urging immediate action on gender equality in the priesthood. Kate McElwee, WOC’s executive director, described the moment as pivotal:

This is really a tipping point moment and many women are looking at the conclave and the future of the Church and asking themselves, is there a place for me here?”

As the pink smoke billowed, 133 cardinals from 70 nations gathered in the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pontiff. Miriam Duignan, executive director of the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research and Women’s Ordination Worldwide, emphasized the protest’s timing:

“We know we have got a little window of time before the cardinals are sequestered inside that Sistine Chapel with no access to their social media and their phones. They will see the pink smoke over the Vatican and they will know that women are sending a clear signal that they cannot go in with 133 men deciding the future of the Catholic Church without half of that Catholic Church,”

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[Morgana]

"...and asking themselves, is there a place for me here?”"

Get Thee to a Nunnery

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” —George Orwell

[DLfromthedesert]

Tell them to go join a coven.

[Ken Regis]

Those women should:
Read a Bible.

[bray]

The Bible is pretty clear about women not being in Church leadership.

[Beowulf9]

Or drown yourself in a river...

[map]

Why not demand a transgender pope? That’s the flavor of the decade

[dfwgator]

Hey Toots, you’re free to join another church.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Have a nice rant!

[Dr. Sivana]

I thought this was a Babylon Bee headline.

[Equine1952]

Ditto

[dayglored]

> I thought this was a Babylon Bee headline.

So did I.

[jonrick46]

The disrespect of these so-called Catholic Feminists will not serve them well. If they got notice by the right Catholic officials, they would all get ex-communicated.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Did they burn their murderous hats?

[Liz]

Catholic (ugh) feminists know zilch about the Catholic faith.

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They need to get used to the fact that Catholicism is not a democracy. While it embraces democratic principles of governance and human rights in its social teachings, the Church’s internal structure is hierarchical, with the Pope holding ultimate authority.

The Catholic Church is organized with the Pope as the supreme leader, followed by bishops, priests, and deacons. This structure is not representative of democratic principles of governance. The Pope, as the Bishop of Rome and head of the Church, holds supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power within the Church.

Each diocese, headed by a bishop, is also not governed democratically. While bishops may consult with priests and laypeople, the final decision-making authority rests with the bishop.

The Catholic Church does have a strong emphasis on social justice and human rights, and it supports external democratic forms of government when they uphold these values. The Church advocates for democracy in the political sphere, where it can be a force for good and protect the common good.

The Vatican City State, the smallest country in the world, is ruled by the Pope as a theocratic absolute elective monarchy. In essence, the Catholic Church is a religious institution with a hierarchical structure, while it also supports external democracy as a political system that can promote the common good and protect human rights.

[A strike]

1 Corinthians 14:34, “the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak.”

Said APOSTLE PAUL ..

[Brooklyn Attitude]

The USA gave women the vote. How did that turn out?

[Liz]

“RERUM NOVARUM,” ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII (Pope Leo XIV’s predecessor) ON CAPITAL AND LABOR enunciated late 19th-century Roman Catholic positions on social justice, especially in relation to the problems created by the C 1760 Industrial Revolution; it emphasized the church’s right to make pronouncements on social issues as they related to moral questions.

[Ann Archy]

AMEN!!!

[jmaroneps37]

“Feminist Anti- Catholics”