Resumen de La rivoluzione incompiuta: le donne nel cristianesimo
In the second half of the twentieth century, women began to re-read and comment on the Jewish and Christian sacred texts, thus discovering how revolutionary and new was the way in which Jesus came into contact with women, and therefore the place he indicated for them in the new religion. Novelties misunderstood by the patriarchal societies in which Christianity took root, but which laid the foundations for the emancipation of women of the contemporary age. Today, however, the Catholic Church has remained the only important totally male institution, the only one in the world in which women – even if women religious constitute more than half of the total number of religious and clergy – have no opportunity to make their own voice. This is the current situation despite the papal document Mulieris dignitatem has been considered feminist, the possibilities offered by canon law, and the change in religious female orders, witnessed by the autonomous awakening of their main association, the International Union of Superiors General (uisg). The total indifference with which the institution faces the serious and widespread problem of sexual abuse of nuns weighs on their inferiority, but they are beginning to denounce the abuses.
