The women’s magazine of the Vatican newspaper had recently reported about the abuse of nuns. Now, the female editorial staff has resigned closed because she sees “a direct male control”.

The female editors of the Vatican’s women’s magazine is closed, resigned because she is under “the direct control of men”. The magazine had recently reported about the abuse of nuns and the oppression of women in the Catholic Church.

the climate of mistrust

“We throw in the towel because we feel surrounded by a climate of distrust, in the us, increasingly, the legitimacy is denied,” wrote the founder of the magazine “Donne, Chiesa, Mondo,” (women, Church, world), Lucetta Scaraffia, in a letter to Pope Francis. With Scaraffia all the rest of the ten employees are leaving the editorial Board, as the Vatican news platform “Vatican news” reported.

“Now it seems to us that a life-saving Initiative is Silenced, and you return to the outdated, dried-up morals, under the direct control of men women choose, which are considered to be trustworthy,” wrote Scaraffia in the letter, present the news Agency dpa.

“Donne, Chiesa, Mondo,” was denounced in February the inaction of the Catholic Church concerning the abuse of nuns.

there is No “criterion of obedience”

“Donne, Chiesa, Mondo,” is a monthly Supplement of the Vatican newspaper “L’osservatore Romano”. The magazine was founded in 2012 with the support of the then Pope Benedict XVI. The editor-in-chief of “l’osservatore Romano”, Andrea Monda, rejected the allegations.

He had guaranteed the editors of the woman’s Supplement of the “full autonomy and freedom,” he wrote in a Vatican statement published. He don’t have anyone selected in accordance with the “criterion of obedience”, but, on the contrary, in the case of the creation of the newspaper truly free argument required.

the inaction of the Church denounced

In February the magazine had denounced the inaction of the Catholic Church – in terms of the abuse of nuns: “If the Church closes the eyes before the scandal, the oppression of women in the Church can never be something.” Pope Francis had acknowledged it himself that sexual abuse of religious sisters are a Problem in the Church.