"Hierarchical system in Catholic Church is outdated" claim by Catholic feminist

Flachsbarth considers women's issues a question for the future of the Church

"Hierarchical system in Catholic Church is outdated".

She is a vet and politician but thinks she can dictate the terms of the Catholic Faith.  

According to the President of the Catholic German Women's Federation, Maria Flachsbarth, the participation of women is one of the central questions for the future of the Catholic Church. Despite setbacks, she wants to support her church.

"There are countless women in congregations and religious orders who give a face to the Christian message, but who are structurally discriminated against by the Church in that they are excluded from many tasks and offices simply because they are women," she told the Evangelical Press Service (epd). This is hard to bear, she said.

Many people turn their backs on the church

According to the German Bishops' Conference, more than half a million people left the Catholic Church last year. In total, the Church lost more than 700,000 members. Flachsbarth said she was shocked by the numbers.

On the one hand, it is a trend of the modern world that people can no longer believe in God. But there are now more and more people "who leave the church, who want to believe and despair of their church". "People are leaving the church because they see the great discrepancy between what Jesus Christ proclaimed as doctrine and how that doctrine is partly lived out today," said the former state secretary in the federal ministry of development.

They could no longer bear the untruthfulness of the institution, the sexual violence and the "complete lack" of coming to terms with it, the discrimination against women, queer people and people with non-binary gender identities.

Criticism of Bishops' veto

The Synodal Way reform process had discussed all these reform concerns and also passed resolutions - with a two-thirds majority of the bishops, Flachsbarth emphasised. Now it looks as if the reform process, which is supposed to permanently establish synodality in Germany, is being held up by the veto of four conservative bishops.

From this you can see how outdated this hierarchical system is in the Catholic Church," she said. It could not be that four bishops did not feel bound by two-thirds majorities, which had come about after intensive listening, consultation and prayer, and torpedoed everything. "That's hard for me to bear myself and many people don't want to bear it any more either and support it with their tax money and therefore resign."

Despite the setbacks, Flachsbarth said she was determined not to turn her back on the church - as many others had done. "We will stay. We will demand these reforms again and again - out of the spirit of the Gospel. The inviolable dignity of every human being, men and women, binary and non-binary, we will demand that!" she said.

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Cathcon:  Better that she leaves because if she gets her way, nothing remains of Catholic Faith and Morals.