No cardinals – Snub or Boycott?
It has been revealed to We Are Church Ireland that none of the 15
Cardinals who are coming to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families will
attend “The Voices of Impact :Women Leaders Shaping Global Change”
Symposium on 24th and 25th August chaired by Ms Norah Casey and U.S.
business executive Ms Susan Ann Davis.
The issues of misogyny and equality for women in the Catholic Church are
not included in the Symposium program.
The Symposium was referred as being “extremely important” and
“groundbreaking” in the invitational letter sent to selected women by the
President of the WMoF, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (letter attached).
“However if it is so groundbreaking, why are no Cardinals attending? The
total absence of all the cardinals confirms that this is a fringe event intended
to provide a fig leaf for the patriarchal hierarchy and an event without substance”
stated Brendan Butler, We are Church spokesperson.