INTERVIEW
A theologian, she is the first woman candidate for the office of archbishop. Anne Soupa, president of the Committee of La Jupe, an association which aims to promote the place of women in the Catholic Church, applied to the Archdiocese of Lyon following the resignation of Cardinal Barbarin, an eminently symbolic position. "The more women there are, the less abuse there will be," she says at the microphone of Europe 1.
For now, the Vatican has not yet responded to him. "There will be less abuse, not because women are less prone to it, but because it makes a difference. It breaks the clerical inter-self, where one does not want to denounce someone. 'one with whom we work every day ", explains Anne Soupa, while the Primate of Gaul, released on appeal for non-denunciation of sexual assault on minors, has finally left his post. "The inter-self is not the last word in the Church, it is necessary to be open to the concern of the victims. A different perspective would help a lot I believe."
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"In the Church, we look a little too much at women from the angle of sexuality"
This Christian feminist activist assures us that The New Testament is not sexist, and rather denounces the look carried by the clergy on women. "In the Church, we look a little too much at women from the angle of sexuality," she annoys. "It's a mistake. The eyes of the men of the Church are hypersexualized, they see women as wives or mothers, but not as human beings capable of leading their lives as they see fit", continues the theologian. "There, there is a very big job to do, a dialogue to be undertaken. We must make jump these gravities of another age."
"The most favorable period for women in the Church was that of Jesus, because Jesus never made a difference between men and women", she notes. "There has been a regression, in part due to the pontificate of John Paul II who seduced women with an extremely laudatory speech, but which did absolutely nothing to improve their integration into responsibilities", again deplores Anne Soupa , which calls for the decanonization of the former pope.