Episode 19: Sr Prof Caroline Mbonu-An African Catholic Church without Women in the Mainstream of Church Life has no Future

Sr Mbonu, Professor of New Testament Studies and Gender Studies, identifies the marginalization of women in the African Church as the number one issue for the Catholic Church in Africa in this ongoing synodal process. She reminds everyone that a bird cannot fly with one wing. Thus,  if the Church in Africa continues to fly with one male wing, it will not go far. She makes a passionate call for an end to clericalism, hierarchism, and patriarchy in the African Church and makes a case for a more inclusive church for women because as she argues in this conversation, without women in the mainstream of the Church and society in Africa, "we are finished as a people."