{"id":51789,"date":"2014-12-05T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/12\/05\/pope-francis-the-church-needs-more-female-theologians\/"},"modified":"2014-12-05T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T18:00:00","slug":"pope-francis-the-church-needs-more-female-theologians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/12\/05\/pope-francis-the-church-needs-more-female-theologians\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: The Church needs more female theologians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Theological Commission introduced its five year study plan to Pope Francis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It's a period where respected theologians investigate key issues even further and then advise the Pope on these matters. The president of the Commission is German Cardinal Gerhard M\u00ed\u00bcller.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>'In this plenary session, members have chosen the topics they will study in this quinquennium.\u00e2?\u009d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently the Commission has 30 members, of which only five are women. The Pope emphasized that more female theologians are needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'In the ever more diverse make up of the Commission, I want to see a higher presence of women...We're still not there yet. They're the strawberries on the cake, but we need more of them.\u00e2?\u009d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pope then highlighted what women can contribute something unique to the world of theology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'Female theologians can shed light, for the good of everyone, on certain unexplored and profound aspects of the mystery of Christ. I invite all of you to take advantage of these specific contributions women can make in matters of faith.\u00e2?\u009d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the next five years, this Commission will study religious liberty, the relationship between faith and the Sacraments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PM\/KLH\u00a0<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nJM<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp:PM<br \/>\n#Papa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 5, 2014. ;The Pope met with the International Theological Commission at the Vatican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Slfu_FNXULE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bcomteologicaint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}