Catholic women clap back at Pope for calling their struggle for ordination “clericalist,” “disrespectful”

Read the full article by Mara Jurado in Novena News, which heavily quotes this November 24 press release by the Women’s Ordination Conference, by clicking here.

Catholic women have clapped back at Pope Francis after the pontiff called their struggle for ordination “clericalist” and “disrespectful”….

The Pope’s comments linking the women’s ordination movement with clericalism and disrespect have raised the ire of the women and men of the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC), the self-described “uncompromising feminist voice for women’s ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church since 1975”.

In a statement November 24, the WOC said it rejected the Pope’s “mischaracterization” of its own movement and others like it “working for a renewed priesthood, free from clericalism and gender discrimination”.

“Women are the heartbeat of the Church and yet every woman, from the parish worker to the Vatican advisor, is subject to the authority of an ordained man”, the women’s ordination campaigners decried.