The entire staff of Women Church World, the women's magazine that comes out once a month alongside L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, resigned on March 26.
Their reasons were numerous: The magazine's editor, Lucetta Scaraffia, told the Associated Press that the new editor of L'Osservatore Romano, Andrea Monda, had attempted to take over her position; the editorial board wrote that L'Osservatore Romano had undermined Women Church World by recruiting women contributors who held competing viewpoints; and that these actions have led to "a vital initiative...being reduced to silence, to return to the antiquated and arid method of the top-down selection, under direct male control, of women who are perceived as being reliable," according to an open letter to Pope Francis signed by Ms. Scaraffia.
Read Full Article »