Journalists at the Vatican Women's Magazine resigned after revealing abuses

ROME.- A new storm has been unleashed today in the field of communications of the

Vatican

: the director of
women's monthly magazine
The Osservatore Romano (OR),
Lucetta Sacraffia and the ten members of her editorial board resigned en bloc. "We throw the sponge because we feel surrounded by a
a climate of distrust and progressive delegitimation, in which we see no esteem and no credit for the continuation of our collaboration, "said Scaraffia.
resignation letter that he wrote to

dad Francisco

and that he made public.

A prestigious historian, professed university professor and feminist, during the seven years she led the
women's magazine
Women's World Church-, an unprecedented publication in the world, dominated by men of the Holy See, Scaraffia was known to have raised her voice and touched
uncomfortable subjects, formerly taboo.

Last year there was
caused a sensation by denouncing in the magazine the situation of hundreds of nuns working as domestic servants of cardinals and bishops. And, last February, to put on the table the badual abuse suffered by the nuns as well as by the priests and the great prelates, who even often forced them to abort after becoming pregnant.

"We could not remain silent (…) It now seems to us that a vital initiative is being silenced and that it is returning to the outdated and arid custom of designations from above, under the direct control of men, women considered reliable, "wrote Scaraffia in his resignation letter, in which he indicated the new director of the
ORAndrea Monda

Monda, who was named last December instead of the legendary Giovanni Maria Vian, defended himself in a statement: he denied taking Liberty from Scaraffia or said he intended to close the supplement, whose he will pursue the story.

"During these months, I badured Professor Sacraffia and the women's writing team the same total autonomy and freedom that characterized the monthly supplement since birth," Monda said. "I have not chosen anyone, male or female, who meets the criterion of obedience," he said.

In dialogue with
THE NATION Sacraffia, who confessed to having been wounded by his resignation after seven years of success of his creature, published in Spanish by
New life and in French for
Life– said that for her and her team since taking over Monda, things have become unsustainable.

"What he did was put women against women: in recent months,
OR Items for women that had a completely different line from ours and where our supplement came out, something that has delegitimized us, "lamented Scaraffia. We became a separate body, where there were free women, while others were domesticated, designated by the director, something horrible, "he denounced.

Scaraffia said that as soon as she took office, Monda had let them know that she was planning to become director of
Women's World Church and that I wanted to participate in the writing meetings. "Then we objected, we let him know that we would resign in this case and things went on.They let us do it, but creating strong pressure with a different line in the room. operation about abuse and conflict between women that finally ended to blow everything up in the air, "he explained.

-Monda said that he will not interrupt the publication of the magazine, what do you think?

-This will continue with other women and it will be absolutely another thing. We were born spontaneously, it was a rare case of freedom within the Holy See, where everything is generally designated from above. They could not stand the freedom that the popes gave us, first

Benedict

and then Francisco, who has always supported us.