The female voice of the Vatican is silent Letter to the pope …

The full team of Vatican magazine called Give Chiesa Mondo (Woman, Church and World), a monthly supplement of the newspaper L & # 39; Osservatore, resigned to his positions in rejecting the change of direction of the Catholic Church's headquarters newspaper, after denouncing the lack of "support" for the editorial project that echoed badual abuse and power within the Catholic Church. "It now seems to us that a vital initiative is being silenced and that we are returning to the obsolete and arid custom of choosing from above, under the direct control of man," denounced the director of the publication, Lucceta Scaraffía, indicating the new direction of the magazine.

"Dear Pope Francis, we close Give Chiesa Mondo"With this title, Scaraffia and the 11 women who made the magazine announced in an open letter that they were suspending their collaboration" with great regret. "The decision was well-founded, explained the director, because the journalists had the feeling in recent months to feel "in a climate of distrust and progressive delegitimation." "With this issue, the editorial interrupts, after seven years, the publication of" Women, Church and World, in fact, we have found that there were no more conditions to continue our collaboration with "The Roman Osssservatoreor "," he said in the Scaraffia editorial.

Give Chiesa Mondo It was one of the magazines that told the scandals of abuses that exploded in the Catholic Church, while it was an official Vatican publication. In a mea culpa, the director badumes that they were not the first to talk about what was going on and hid inside the church, but she said they then reported on denunciations of religious to the higher hierarchies. "The facts had appeared, also thanks to many media, we could not remain silent: the confidence that so many women had placed in us would have been seriously hurt," they explained.

The production of the editorial team comes after the movements of the Vatican spokesmen, Greg Burke and Paloma García Ovejero, after the arrival of the new prefect of the dicastery of communication, Paolo Ruffini.

For journalists, it was an essential fact. In an interview with the Huffington PostScaraffia explained that the team "had experienced many difficulties" since the entry into office of the new administration. "At least two months after the publication of articles totally opposed to our monthly line, it was a growing process of delegitimization," warned the magazine's director, highlighting an article that was "a very overhaul. criticism of a video that shows abuse against religious with positions opposed to ours ".

The women's decision coincides with the change of director of the publication which, in December 2018, became the responsibility of Andrea Monda on Francisco's order, replacing Giovanni Maria Vian, who had been at the head of the newspaper for eleven years. "During these seven years, our goal has been to give voice to women who, as Church, work in the Church and for the Church, by opening up at the church. dialogue with women of other religions, "Scaraffia explained in defining the work they have accomplished.

In this context, he emphasized in particular the deepening "rich and interesting" relations with Muslim women, which "is accompanied by the rediscovery of a dense female presence in the country. ancient Islamic tradition, today almost ignored ". as miners who have discovered precious metal wires and have revealed them in the light and knowledge of all: a true human and universal wealth, and in this sense "catholic" ", he insisted.

For its part, Monda said that "in no way" chose "someone, man or woman, with the criterion of obedience" and who always avoided "interfering with the monthly supplement", in a statement sent by the press office of the Vatican, which avoided giving information on the resignation of the team "Give Chiesa MondoMonda badured that the supplement would continue to be published, although he did not specify who would take over.