PARIS (FRANCE)
LaCroix International
March 27, 2019
Founded in 2009 by Anne Soupa and Christine Pedotti to promote male-female equality in the Church, the Skirt Committee (Comité de la Jupe) announced that “in view of various affairs in the Catholic Church” it had launched a new petition reaffirming “its opposition to the condition currently given to women in their own Church.”
“Their exclusion from all responsibility is an aggravating cause of sex abuse since the male and celibate structure of the clergy leads to a closed world where impunity rules,” says the press release accompanying the March 25 petition.
“Moreover, this exclusion is the major cause of the clericalism condemned by Pope Francis. Thus, the attached petition demands that equality of responsibilities and rights between men and women finally be recognized in the Catholic Church.”
“Matters cannot go on as they are. Things must change!”
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