“It is no longer credible to separate the cry of women from the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth. I think the Catholic Church has been far too slow to wake up to that,” said Professor Celia Deane-Drummond
Pope Francis’ “willingness to affirm leadership” among women is “a sign of hope”, according to Professor Celia Deane-Drummond, director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute.
However, added Professor Deane-Drummond, a senior research fellow in theology at the University of Oxford, “it is going to take time” to dismantle certain perceptions of women and “the kind of patriarchy which is throttling or has throttled the Church”.
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