"We, believing feminist women, raise our thoughts, our experience of faith in Jesus, His life's project, and our commitment to the Church and the world to cry out: Until equality becomes customary in the Church."
This is what the organizers of a rally held in front of the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid this Sunday emphasized. Dozens of women gathered to demand greater representation of women within religious institutions.
The platform "Revolt of Women in the Church" convened these gatherings in 26 Spanish cities, including Barcelona, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria, Pamplona, Seville, Malaga, Valencia, Vigo, Murcia, Oviedo, and Zaragoza.
Their "demands" aim for women to have a voice and a vote within the Church. They chose to demonstrate under the slogan "Memory and Hope," which they say summarizes their requests. They aspire to a Church where women occupy all spaces with total equality, without discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation, as if being a priest were possible for a woman.
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These pseudo-demands are, in any case, not possible within the Church because it is the Lord who has ordained things thus. However, they are entirely free to join Protestant communities, which would be pleased to ordain them as pastors for their greater happiness.
These feminists consider the Church to be "one of the major bastions of patriarchy." Although progress has been made in other areas, they emphasize that women do not have access to all ecclesiastical responsibilities.
The "Revolt of Women in the Church" wishes to "restore" a Church where women are recognized as full subjects, with a voice and a vote, and where their talent is valued.
Furthermore, they call for remembrance, also wishing to make visible the victims of abuse within the Church and to obtain justice on their behalf.