translated from Spanish: New auxiliary bishop of Santiago and the role of women in the Catholic Church: “At the Last Supper there was none”

During this week, Pope Francis appointed two new or Auxiliary bispos for Santiago: Carlos Irarrázaval and Alberto Lorenzelli. The first had been in the controversy before by an unfortunate phrase-“Stir a reheated rice is useless”-to refer to cases of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Now he explained his criticized phrase.
“Perhaps I as a cure have to eat overheated rice over the count; The freshly made rice is richer. The overheated rice is already stale, but you can also eat it. I said it about what happens here in the Parish of the Sacred Heart, since 10 years ago the pot was uncovered, thank God, and you have to thank the victims, who bravely were able to speak and continue to talk to help us get ahead of this ” , said in an interview with CNN Chile. According to Irarrázaval, his metaphor for overheated rice “means we have to get to the bottom. To stay with the same thing that we already know, there is nothing new. What we have to do is get to the bottom of the situation to solve the problem and we have to take morals out of that which we have learned to look forward to. ”
But, after going out in part of a controversy, Irarrázaval was crammed into another, to be consulted by the role of women in the Catholic Church. A phrase that, again, was criticized in social networks.
“It is true that at the Last Supper there was no woman seated at the table and that we must respect it as well. Jesus Christ took options and did not ideologically, “he said.
“Women are half the world, you carry it. If you saw which collaborators helped me here, adding and subtracting, there are many more women, “he tried to explain, using the feminist movement.
Irarrázaval added that “another thing is that we want to fight the man, make a rooster, who is more. We are equal and at the same time different, and each one, from our humanity, we have to put what we know and what we want in the service of the other, because we cannot alone. ”
Given the question of whether he would like a more relevant role in the church for women, Irarrázaval responded that in her opinion they already have it. “Perhaps they like to be in the back room, maybe,” he added. “We all have to get them to do what they want to do. Obviously, Jesus Christ gave us certain guidelines, and if we want to be The Church of Jesus Christ we have to be faithful to Jesus Christ. ”
“Jewish culture is a macho culture to this day. If you see a Jew walking down the street, the woman goes 10 steps back, but Jesus Christ breaks that scheme, Jesus talks with women, talks with adulterous women, with the Samaritans, Jesus Christ let the women take care of him. Who did you ask to announce the resurrection? To the Magdalena, a woman, “said the prelate. UE help them heal the wounds.”

Original source in Spanish