At Amazon synod, UN expert says Catholic Church still behind on gender equality

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From the article:

A United Nations representative for the rights of indigenous peoples who is participating in the Catholic bishops synod on the Amazon said Tuesday (Oct. 8) that the church still has a ways to go in terms of women’s representation.
Victoria Lucia Tauli-Corpuz, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, criticized the lack of female representation at the synod, which began Sunday at the Vatican and continues through Oct. 27.
Only a handful of indigenous women are there, she noted in an interview with Religion News Service. “Some of them are young — that’s good — but of course it’s still dominantly men.

“I think it’s a problem,” she said. “The church really needs to realize the importance of equality between genders, in the church and outside the church.”

To read more:

https://religionnews.com/2019/10/08/at-amazon-synod-un-expert-says-catholic-church-still-behind-on-gender-equality/

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1. Yeah, for a second there we'd all forgotten the Catholic church is a regressive patriarchy

Good thing we have UN experts around to set us straight.

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2. This also provides useful employment for the UN experts. eom