Francis met on Friday with Belgian university professors at the Catholic
University of Leuven, which is celebrating its 600th anniversary this
year. It is the largest university in Belgium with more than 65,000
students.
Rector Luc Sels, a sociologist and father of five, read
a long speech in Dutch, and Francis had the translated text in his
hands.
Sels attacked the Church for not inventing an invalid
female priesthood: "Why do we tolerate this great difference between men
and women in a Church?"
He believes that the Church would be "warmer" with women in the priesthood.
Sels
mentions that women are already in leadership positions such as in
bishops' councils: "Monsignor Luc Terlinden [Archbishop of Brussels]
recently replaced the auxiliary bishop of Walloon Brabant with a
committed woman."
Sels also called for "more openness towards the LGBTQIA plus community".
For Sels, it is encouraging that the Flemish bishops organised an ecumenical prayer during the homosexual march in Antwerp.
He thanked Francis for his infamous phrase "who am I to judge" about a homosexual priest:
"With
the Synod on Synodality, in which women participate fully for the first
time, you put on the agenda the important question of how the Church
can preserve its unity in diversity and gave a boost to constructive
dissent in the Church."
After the speech, Francis stood up to shake Sels' hands and warmly thanked him while the audience applauded.
It is that Bergoglio identified himself totally with the apostate rector and thanked him (for expressing his own heresies so clearly while he has to be careful).
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