Devout women in the Teutonic world have had enough
ACROSS MANY parts of the Christian world, soothing and well-worn sermons were preached on May 12th about the indispensable role of women in upholding the faith: it was, after all, Mother’s Day in many countries. But in Münster, a bastion of German Catholicism, a somewhat different female voice was raised. Catholic women in that city have been co-ordinating a nationwide, week-long “strike” to back their demand for greater female participation in the life of the church, and other reforms.
The protest has thrown into sharp relief some dilemmas faced by Catholicism in the prosperous Western places which used to be the faith's principal locus, before the centre of gravity started shifting to the developing world. Given that the Catholic faith is a global body with a single leader, the German Catholic church cannot act unilaterally over sensitive matters like ordination and gender, but it cannot ignore pressure from its most dynamic members either.
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