Papal Conclave

For me, some of the issues that the Church should talk about are most likely same-sex marriages, abortion, women’s place in the Church and divorce. I think that some of the challenges the future pope will face is the amount of participation in the Church. After the Church sex abuse scandal, many people have lost their faith and have turned away from participation in mass. People do not trust priests and it is the Pope’s job to lead people back into their faith. I think that the future of the Church needs someone who can pull everyone together and bring order to everything in the church. We need someone who we can trust, and will try their hardest to make the Catholic community better. As women in the Church, we do not have the ability to speak out nor do have the right to participate in any way. Women need to have a bigger part in the Church in order to lead people in serving the Church. If there in one thing in the Church, I would change some of the practices and customs they celebrate. They seem so strict and stupid that I think it is time for the Church to change them. I think there is room for democracy in the hierarchy of the Church because everyone has a voice in the Church and everyone has a right to speak about what they do and do not like in the Church’s practices and customs. I think that the Holy Spirit works through the hierarchy giving the people the empowerment to speak and make changes needed.