Claudia Touris He studied History at the University of Buenos Aires, where he also received his doctorate with an innovative thesis on the Argentine Third World constellation in the second half of the 20th century. He then did a post-doctorate at the Universidade do Rios dos Sinos, with a comparative history research on the networks of liberationist Catholicism in Brazil and Argentina. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Luján. In her most recent research, she addresses the feminine religious congregations of life inserted in the 1970s in Latin America. She is also coordinator of the Working Group on Religion and Society in Argentina, based in the Institute of Argentine and American History Dr. Emilio Ravignani, of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires.

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"There is no way to carry the Church forward without counting on women." Women, Synod of the Amazon and challenges in the present of the Catholic Church

Interview with
  • Maria Clara Bingemer

  • Claudia Touris
  • Sebastian Pattin

Keywords: Catholic church, women, Synod of the Amazon.

In April 2020, shortly after a new anniversary of Jorge Mario Bergoglio's assumption of the Petrine See in March 2013, we interviewed Brazilian theologian Dr. Maria Clara Bingemer by video call with the purpose of discussing the role of the women, the Synod of the Amazon and the current challenges of the Catholic Church. Recognized for her works Theology and Literature: Afinidades e segredos compartilhados (Editora Vozes, Petrópolis, 2016), Latin American Theology: Roots and Branches (Orbis Books, New York, 2016), Mística e Testemunho em Koinonia: a Inspiração que vem do Martírio de Duas Communities do Século xx (Paulus Editora, San Pablo, 2018) and Simone Weil: Contra o colonialismo (Bazar do Tempo, Rio de Janeiro, 2019), Bingemer, a Brazilian feminist theologian, represents an intellectual effort to continue articulating the social sciences and Theology in Latin America. A graduate of Social Communication in Rio de Janeiro and a doctorate in Theology at the Gregorian University of Rome, she inherited the chair of Leonardo Boff at the Franciscan Theological Institute of Petrópolis after the ban on the renowned Brazilian theologian by John Paul II. Bingemer, specialist in Systematic Theology, works as coordinator of the Carlo Martini chair at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and advises the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, but also as editor of the Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira, Concilium and Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2003-2008).