In 2017, shortly after the #MeToo Movement began denouncing violence against women in the secular world, the feminist movement became a prophetic voice also within the Church. Several ecclesiastical initiatives have been responding to the wound and the suffering produced by structural discrimination against women. By March 2020 there were already public demonstrations in the streets in support of the dignity and equality of women in the Church. Without pastoral intelligence, it is impossible to grasp the regenerative potential of women in the Church.

Without pastoral intelligence, it is impossible to grasp the regenerative potential of these movements. Just as working for peace or for integral ecological conversion are areas in which the Church’s social teaching has much to say, so also the feminist perspective can help us to rethink from top to bottom how we organize and how we celebrate our faith more fraternally.

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