The second Vatican council before the demands of twentieth century feminist some consequences and challenges

Abstract

As believers we witness the absence of women in priestly ministry and church organization. These are spaces that demand their presence as a testimony to the establishment of the Kingdom of God in our history. Equality and cooperation between men and women as disciples of Christ, are the most striking manifestation of the Trinitarian unity and diversity, the core of our faith. The Second Vatican Council, took on the demands of women between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and provided new theological and ecclesiological guidelines for our society, to promote the emergence of new contexts and life experiences to talk about God. Feminist theology emerged from two important movements in our time. On the one hand, the efforts of thousands of women who pushed for a change in patriarchal patterns of inequality. On the other hand, the doors opened by the Second Vatican Council, made possible a theology that embraced the human aspirations that requires transformation. In this work we address the relationship between women's movements, Second Vatican Council and some of its consequences.