incident between the University of Louvain and Pope Francis on the role of women in the Church

The pressure from Belgian Catholic universities on Pope Francis to change the place of women in the Church was relentless during his stay in Brussels. Provoked like never before by the demands of a “Christian ecofeminism”Francis will however have resisted by the classic position of the « vocation » of women in the Church that his predecessor John Paul II would not have denied, already harpooned, in the same place and on the same subject, during his visit in 1985. The first salvo was fired on Friday in the historic seat from this prestigious university in Leuven, now Dutch-speaking. The second charge was launched on Saturday afternoon in Louvain-la-Neuve, the French-speaking seat of this renowned Catholic university which is celebrating its six hundredth anniversary this year, one of the reasons for Francis’ visit to Belgium. Until the provocation of an incident, hitherto unprecedented, in the series of pontifical trips.

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