Vatican Women's Magazine Denounces Exploitation of Nuns by Church Officials

The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano apparently has a women’s magazine, and apparently, they are not fucking around.

The Associated Press reported that their March issue is dedicated to women and work and goes deep on topics “including the gender pay gap, the lack of women in leadership positions, and the “Ni Una Menos” movement to combat feminicide and violence against women, often by spurned lovers.” It also looks at the way that nuns are treated within the church:

Its expose on the underpaid labor and unappreciated intellect of religious sisters confirmed that the magazine is increasingly becoming the imprint of the Catholic Church’s #MeToo movement.

“Some of them serve in the homes of bishops or cardinals, others work in the kitchens of church institutions or teach. Some of them, serving the men of the church, get up in the morning to make breakfast, and go to sleep after dinner is served, the house cleaned and the laundry washed and ironed,” reads one of the lead articles.

“Behind all this is the unfortunate idea that women are worth less than men, and above all that priests are everything in the church while sisters are nothing,” one nun told the author of the piece. Another noted that nuns from poorer backgrounds who come from around the world to Rome are put in a particularly bad position: “These sisters feel indebted, tied down, and so they keep quiet.”

This isn’t an isolated move from the six-year-old magazine, either. Apparently they are in the business of rocking the holy boat:

“Until now, no one has had the courage to denounce these things,” the magazine’s editor, Lucetta Scaraffia, told The Associated Press. “We try to give a voice to those who don’t have the courage to say these words” publicly.