AUSTRALIA
ABC Radio National
August 15, 2020
By Siobhan Hegarty
Sixty per cent of churchgoers in Australia are women, yet in the decision-making ranks of the Catholic Church, female voices are largely absent.
The lack of women in leadership roles is a point of contention for many theologians — not just for equity reasons.
According to Robyn Horner, from the Australian Catholic University’s school of theology, the church’s sexual abuse crisis demonstrated the failings of a male-only leadership structure.
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