Women Are Knocking on the Door of the Church

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Gerard O'Connell | Mar 9 2016 - 12:12pm | 2 comments

Blind people are seen at school in Lhasa, Tibet, in this Sept. 2, 2011, file photo. Sabriye Tenberken, a German who went fully blind at the age of 12, runs a school for the blind there (CNS photo/Wu Hong, EPA).

“Women are knocking on the door of the church. We are knocking right now. But I fear a generation will come that will stop knocking,” Dr. Carolyn Woo, president and C.E.O. of Catholic Relief Services, USA, told a meeting of Voices of Faith at the Vatican on March 8.
She made her comments during a panel discussion organized by Voices of Faith, a Catholic women’s international network, on the theme: “What women want—a multigenerational conversation on expanding women’s leadership in the Church.” 
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