VATICAN CITY
CBC News
Bursts of pink smoke filled the air in Rome today as Catholic women staged a protest calling for women’s equality in the church, while top Roman Catholic cardinals readied to elect the religion’s next pope.
The Women’s Ordination Conference, which has been lobbying the church for more than three decades to ordain women, staged the colourful protest at Piazza Garibaldi in Rome and in five locations across the United States, including Washington and San Francisco.
The organization’s members and allies gathered in the morning carrying signs and canisters filled with pink smoke, which they released into the air.
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