Vatican women's council hopes to be 'electric shock' for global Church

June 29, 2017
If women were protons and men were electrons, the Vatican would be a pretty negatively charged electric field, meaning that men generally own the stage. The female advisory board for the Pontifical Council for Culture wishes to change that, sending an “electric shock” that will open discussion on women’s roles in the Church. “The Church is a male-dominated world, but the [wider] world in which it exists is both male and female,” Consuelo Corradi, vice rector for research and international relations at the LUMSA University of Rome, told Crux. “The global church needs to enter a continued dialogue with women,” Corradi said. That’s precisely what Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican’s formerly all-male Pontifical Council for Culture, tried to do by creating a permanent advisory board entirely comprised by women. Source: Vatican women's council hopes to be 'electric shock' for global Church