“The future of the Church is linked to the issue of women,” Civiltà Cattolica says in a long review of the book “La fuga delle quarantenni. Il difficile rapporto delle donne con la Chiesa”
(“The Flight of the Forty-Year-Olds: the difficult relationship women
have with the Church”) written by Fr. Armando Matteo, national assistant
of the Italian Catholic Federation of University Students (FUCI).
The article also mentions Lucetta Scaraffia, a historian and columnist for the Vatican’s daily broadsheet L’Osservatore Romano.
Speaking about the pre-conciliar fellowship between women and the Church, Scaraffia efficiently spoke about “an alliance between two losers.”
According to Civiltà Cattolica, the Second Vatican Council “brought many changes with it” and the Church was mostly in favour of women participating in public and social life.”
However, it concludes: “the flood of female demands created a deep rift between women and the Catholic Church which has not healed.”