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Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary that was created for this movement.

Mary 2.0 (German: Maria 2.0) is an awareness movement of roman-catholic women in Germany who challenges male dominance within the church.

By withholding their services inside parishes as well as voluntary work from the 11th to the 18th of May 2019, they protested against the lack of reforms inside the Catholic Church.[1]

Name

The name of the initiative was chosen since "Mary 1.0" symbolizes Mary as the ideal of the silent and serving women. "2.0 stands for a new beginning. Reset everything to zero. We are no longer like that," as stated by Barbara Stratmann, one of the initiators of the movement.[2]

Demands

The group laid out its demands Iin an open letter to Pope Francis.[3]

We refrather call upon the Catholic Church, in accordance with many before us...

  • to deny office to those that have harmed others or have tolerated or covered up such wrongdoings
  • to surrender all offenders to secular courts and to cooperate in all prosecutions without restrictions
  • to allow women access to all church functions
  • to abolish mandatory celibacy
  • to align churchly sexual morals realistically with the reality of life.

Church strikes and activities

"When I grow up, I will become Pope."

The initiators asked all women to go on a church strike during the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the week from the 11th to the 18th May 2019. This included not entering any churches as well as withdrawing from all church-related voluntary work. The plan was to hold services in front of the churches and lay out the complaints and demands in creative and emphatic ways.[4] White was chosen as the colour of "charity, sorrow and a new beginning".[5]

At least 50 locations[6] announced events in line with Mary 2.0, backed by women and men the like. One such location was the Parish Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Essen-Burgaltendorf) where honorary active men join the church strike.[6][7] On Sunday the 12. of May a vigil was held on the Münsteraner Domplatz where 700-800 believers gathered at the centre of the Germany wide awareness week.[8]

Preceding events

The origin of the movement was a reading circle in the parish of the Holy Cross Church in Münster where in early 2019 the group studied the first Apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, Evangelii gaudium. In a online petition to Pope Francis participants demanded the access of women to all ministries and the abolishment of the Celibacy.[9][10] The handling of the victims of the Catholic Church sexual abuse cases was also criticized.[11]

Response

Support came from the large catholic women associations the Katholische Frauengemeinschaft Deutschlands (Kfd) and the Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund (KDFB)[12][13]

Catholic priests also voiced their support of the demands of Mary 2.0. For instance, Jörg Hagemann, Dean of Münster, took part in a Liturgy of the Word in front of the church where he later held the regular mass with the Eucharist. [14]

Franz-Josef Bode, Bishop of Osnabrück and head of the subcommission women[15] of the pastoral commission of the Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, welcomes the initiative, stating that while it is problematic that women leave the Eucharistic communion and hold their own ceremonies in parishes, one has to recognize that the profound injury to many active women in the church is behind this impatience: they don't feel the approval in the church as their commitment deserves.[16]

Stephan Burger, Archbishop of Freiburg, was sympathetic towards the wish of the women to get access to the deaconry and priesthood, but does not see any space for it in the Canon law of the Catholic Churche.[17]

Matthias Kopp, a speaker at the German Bishop Conference, explained that there has to be change and that talks are necessary, but strikes are not the instrument.[18]

Critics of the awareness week are the archbishop Georg Gänswein, personal secretary to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI., who warned of creating a new church and tinkering around with its DNA.[6] The conservative forum of German Catholics called on people to leave the Catholic women's organization.[19] Peter Winnemöller (kath.net) points out that self invented services do not satisfy the Sunday obligation and these actions which he sees as a boycott of the church do not meet the requirements of a Dispensation (canon law) according to CIC Can. 1245. Therefore the participants commit a mortal sin.[20]

Austria

Women in Austira also joined the movement.[21]

Switzerland

Women involved in the church in Switzerland also call for a strike on the 15. and 16. of June 2019 as well as joining the national women strike on the 14th.[22]

This is supported the Schweizerischer Katholischer Frauenbund (English: Swiss catholic Women's Organization) and the interest group of feminist theologians.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maria 2.0.

References

  1. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "German Catholic women begin boycott over lack of reforms | DW | 11.05.2019". DW.COM. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  2. ^ "Die Zeit der schweigenden Frauchen ist vorbei". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 2019-05-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  3. ^ "Open Letter to pope Francis" (PDF). Maria 2.0. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ "Wie alles anfing und wie es dann weiter ging…" (in German). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  5. ^ "Aktionswoche im Marienmonat Mai (Flyer)" (PDF) (in German). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  6. ^ a b c "Kleine Initiative wächst zu bundesweiter Protestwelle". domradio.de (in German). 2019-05-11. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  7. ^ "Aufruf zum Kirchenstreik". Ruhr Kurier Lokalkompass (in German). 2019-04-30. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  8. ^ "Hunderte Frauen bei Mahnwache vor dem Dom". Westfälische Nachrichten (in German). 2019-05-12. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  9. ^ "Bundesweit treten Frauen in den Kirchenstreik". welt.de (in German). 2019-05-11. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  10. ^ "Katholische Frauen im Kirchenstreik". zdf.de (in German). 2019-05-11. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  11. ^ "Frauen treten unter der Aktion "Maria 2.0" in Kirchenstreik "Wir wollen verändern"". domradio.de (in German). 2019-02-21. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  12. ^ "Katholische Frauen begrüßen bundesweite Initiativen zur Erneuerung der Kirche (Presseerklärung)". kfd (in German). 2019-03-06. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  13. ^ "From the Catholic faith's European heartland, a cry of female protest". The Economist. 2019-05-13. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  14. ^ "„Maria 2.0": So läuft der Frauen-Streik im Bistum Münster". Kirche+Leben (in German). 2019-05-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  15. ^ "Pastoralkommission". Deutsche Bischofskonferenz (in German). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  16. ^ "Katholische Frauen starten einwöchigen Kirchenstreik". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 2019-05-11. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  17. ^ "Katholische Kirche "Maria 2.0": Der Streik der frommen Frauen". Deutsche Welle (in German). 2019-05-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  18. ^ "Nicht in die Kirche, nicht zum Ehrenamt". tagesthemen 23:15 Uhr (Video) (in German). 2019-05-11. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  19. ^ https://www.katholisch.de/aktuelles/aktuelle-artikel/wegen-maria-20-katholiken-forum-ruft-zu-austritt-aus-frauenbund-auf
  20. ^ "Der Kirchenboykott rückt näher" (in German). 2019-05-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1=, |day=, |month=, and |deadurl= (help)
  21. ^ https://religion.orf.at/stories/2980554/
  22. ^ https://www.kath.ch/newsd/kirchenfrauen-sollen-im-juni-gleich-zwei-mal-streiken/
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