Pope Francis jokes 'woman was from a rib' as he avoids vow to reform church
This is the man who heads up the most powerful anti-woman, anti-gay religious institution on the planet. Good luck with that struggle for equal rights... as if the SC rulings of the past few days haven't proven the point.
Pope Francis jokes 'woman was from a rib' as he avoids vow to reform church
Pope refuses to commit himself to raising status of women in Catholic church and makes 'joke' about female subservience
John Hooper in Rome
The Guardian, Sunday 29 June 2014
In his first interview with a female journalist since his election to the spiritual leadership of the world's 1.2 billion baptised Catholics, Pope Francis dodged a string of questions about whether he intended raising the status of women in his church and made a joke about women being "taken from a rib"...
...But when his interviewer, the Vatican correspondent of the Rome daily Il Messaggero, Franca Giansoldati, asked him whether he could detect an underlying misogyny in the Catholic church, Francis replied: "The fact is that woman was taken from a rib." Giansoldati wrote that he then laughed "heartily" before saying: "I'm joking. That was a joke."
The 77-year-old pontiff went on: "The issue of women needs to be gone into in more depth, otherwise you can't understand the church itself." But did he envisage, say, appointing a woman to head a Vatican department?
"Well," replied the pope cryptically. "Priests often end up under the sway of their housekeepers."....
Edited to add link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/pope-francis-woman-from-rib-avoids-pledge-reform-catholic-church
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