Pope Francis recognizes male authoritarianism in the Catholic Church

The dad Francisco acknowledged Tuesday that women have "Legitimate claims" ask more justice and equality in the Catholic Churchbut did not support the wider calls of their own bishops to recognize "the urgency of inevitable change" in order to give them more leadership positions.

Francisco published a document inspired by the Synod of Bishops of October 2018 to improve the ministry to young Catholics today. The meeting was marked by the demand for more rights for women and the final document highlighted the need to ensure that women hold decision-making positions in the institution. as "an act of justice".

In the long text "Christ is alive", the pontiff does not support this conclusion. Affirms that a church listening to young people should be attentive to "Legitimate claims" women on equality and justice and should better train men and women with leadership potential.

"A living church can be based on history and recognize that there has been male authoritarianism, domination, various forms of slavery, abuse, and gender-based violence.Wrote Francisco.

"From this perspective, she can support the call for respect for women's rights and offer a convincing support for greater reciprocity between men and women, even if she does not agree with any what some feminist groups propose, "he added.

Interviewed Tuesday at a press conference on the lack of references to the presence of women in leadership positions and the need to better accommodate homobaduals, the organizer of the synod, Cardinal Lorenzo BaldisseriHe pointed out that Francisco acknowledged in his text that he could not reproduce the final document of the synod in its entirety and sent it back to the readers.

The Argentine pontiff explained that all the reflections of the summit of the bishops inspired him but that he wished to use his writing to "summarize the proposals that I consider the most significant".

The document, known as an apostolic exhortation, covers a wide range of issues facing today's youth, noting that many feel excluded from the world. Catholic Church for her badual scandals or financial and suffer untold forms of exploitation, conflict and despair.

Much of the text focuses on the promises and dangers of the digital world. He calls for urgent reform of Catholic schools and catechism programs, stating that they are generally focused on survival and on protecting young people from external errors and that they are far from the reality of their life.

"Sometimes, in order to develop a pure and perfect catechism for young people, marked by abstract ideas, protected from the world and free from defects, we can turn the gospel into a boring, meaningless and unimportant proposition. attractive, "he writes. pontiff. "This catechism for young people ends completely outside their world and is only suitable for an elite of young Christians who see themselves as different while living in an empty and unproductive isolation.

The document recognizes the importance of baduality for young people as part of their development.. But he uses the term "homobaduality" once in his 299 paragraphs and does not repeat the language used in the synod's conclusions, which called for a deeper anthropological, theological and pastoral study of baduality and its tendencies.

About badual abuse, the pope asks "Eradication" of how authority was exercised in the church, which allowed them to happen and to challenge the way in which the leaders of the institution approached the cases with "irresponsibility and lack of transparency ".

"The desire for domination, the lack of dialogue and transparency, the dual forms of life, the spiritual emptiness and the psychological weakness are the terrain on which corruption is developing," said Francisco in his text.

The pontiff asks the faithful to designate the priests who seem threatened to seek the affection of the young "and to remind them of their commitment to God and his people".