Francisco: "All feminism ends up being a machismo with a skirt" | Chronic

Pope Francis badured this Friday that "all feminism ends up being a machismo with a skirt" After the presentation made by a canon law professor at the anti-federalist summit held at the Vatican.

"Inviting a woman to speak is not going into the modality of an ecclesiastical feminism, because in the end all feminism ends up being a machismo with a skirt"were the words used by the pope in an attempt to praise the exhibition Linda Ghisoni, professor of Italian canon law and first woman to intervene in the presentations of the anti-federalist summit gathering 190 bishops from around the world.

Sitting next to the teacher in the atrium of the new Synod clbadroom, where the working sessions are taking place, Francisco added: "While listening to Ghisoni 's intervention, I heard the Church speak for herself, that is to say that we all talked about the day. Church, in all the presentations, but this time it is the church itself that spoke, it is not just a matter of style: feminine genius that is reflected in the l & # 39; Church is the woman ".

According to statements reproduced by the DPA agency, the pope claimed that inviting a woman to the summit meant inviting the church to "talk about her".

"It is the step that we must make with force: the woman is the image of the Church, it is woman, mother, a style, without this style, we would speak of the people of God, but as organization, maybe a union, but not as family enlightened by Mother Church ".

On the role of women in the Church and their marginalization of places of power, Bergoglio added: "It's not a question of giving women more functions in the Church, that's good, but that does not solve the problem, it's the integration of women as a figure of the Church in our thought. Women".

Ghisoni, who is also under-secretary of the Laity, Family and Life Dicastery, asked that this forum "take charge of what happened so that prevention does not end with a beautiful program, but becomes an ordinary pastoral attitude".