Rorate Caeli: Who exactly is this Sister Fernanda Barbiero? One may begin to get an idea by reading what she said in an article entitled “Religious Sisters in the Church,” published on 28 January 2012 by the Italian LCWR. What immediately strikes the reader is the reference she makes to the Fourth World Conference on Women by the United Nations at Beijing in 1995. Sr. Fernanda goes overboard in stressing the “great importance” of the Conference on Women, saying that it is the first stage on the path towards “women’s power,” which will give women a new sort of “citizenship” in “society, politics, economics, the Church, and academia.” Read more here.
