An article in the Catholic Herald described an uncomfortable scene during the Pope´s recent visit to Belgium.
The visit ended at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels with a Sunday Mass for the beatification of the Spanish nun and missionary, Anne of Jesus. But every time a woman took the microphone during the Mass, certain women in the crowd stood up, dressed in white as a protest over the refusal of the church to ordain female priests.
Read the full story here.
The gesture came a day after the Catholic University of Louvain publicly upbraided Pope Francis over his stance on the role of women in society, in a strongly worded press release issued just moments after the pontiff spoke at the college. It described his position on the role of women as “deterministic and reductive”, according to a story in the Guardian. And went on in extraordinary language from a Catholic university about a pope: “UCLouvain deplores the conservative positions expressed by Pope Francis on the role of women in society”.
Read the Guardian story here.