Novena News: Austrian cardinal insists question of women in Church leadership positions remains open
By Mada Jurado
The coronavirus crisis has brought the world to a tragic, grinding halt. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t tiny specks of hope on the horizon, such as in Austria, where a cardinal has insisted that the question of women in Church leadership positions remains open.
Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schönborn was speaking Sunday March 22 on Austrian state television.
The cardinal said he could understand many in the Church were frustrated by the Pope’s skipping over the issue of greater responsibility for Catholic women in his post-Amazon Synod apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia, but he asked for patience to heal what he called the wound of women’s invisibility in the Church.