NCR: Disappointment, outrage over papal document on the Amazon
By Heidi Schlumpf
National Catholic Reporter
Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the Amazon disappointed those hoping for an opening of clerical roles to married men and women, with many noting that the pope failed to extend his prophetic voice about environmental injustice to injustices in his own house, the church. Many women were especially outraged over the document’s language of complementarity. […]
[…]The pope’s failure to see “similar power structures at play” in the degradation of the earth and the degradation of women also was criticized by the Women’s Ordination Conference.
“With Querida Amazonia, the Pope is willfully turning his back on the calls of women for recognition of the sacramental ministries they offer the people of the Amazon and the global church,” said a statement from the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC), which noted the lack of women as official participants in the synod.
“This shows, yet again, that a synod without the equal voice and votes of women will never produce fruit that satisfies the urgent needs of the people of God,” the WOC statement said.