Pope Hailed as a Feminist After Calling Pay Gap a 'Pure Scandal'

The patron saint of PR strikes again.

Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19_(cropped)No, women won’t be invited to serve as priests any time soon, but that doesn’t mean Pope Francis has any less respect or reverence for women’s competence in all of the careers they do occupy.

During a recent address in St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff called the pay gap (aka the socioeconomic phenomenon that sees women paid consistently less than men for equal work) a “pure scandal.”

He continued, “Why is it taken for granted that women must earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.”

The comments were made during a broader speech about marriage, during which the pope refuted the idea that women’s liberation was responsible for the decline in the institution, blaming it instead on the current “culture of the provisional”, where nothing is “definitive.”

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