7Margens: E se o fumo tivesse sido cor-de-rosa?

There are about four dozen people, mostly women, who pray, sing, speak, proclaim slogans and throw pink smoke. A few hundred meters away, the next day the white smoke of the Sistine Chapel will come out announcing the election of a new Pope, but they want more: the pink smoke also wants to be “a call for help that the cardinals [who elected the new pope] cannot ignore: women’s equality cannot wait.”

The initiative is from the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC), an international organization based in the United States, which defends the “ordination of women as deacons, priests and bishops in an inclusive and responsible Roman Catholic Church.”

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