The monthly magazine will have a new editorial board coordinated by the journalist, feminist, and first woman to become deputy editor of a large Italian newspaper. "Monda assures us complete freedom".
The women's insert in the Vatican newspaper will be published regularly in May. And it will keep going in the future. The Holy See has communicated that L'Osservatore Romano set up an editorial board for "Women Church World" coordinated by the journalist Rita Pinci, who in the past was the first woman to become deputy editor of a great Italian newspaper.
Thus, editor Andrea Monda complies to what he had assured after the stormy spill of a part of the editorial staff of the monthly magazine, starting with its director, Lucetta Scaraffia.
The editorial structure has undergone some changes: first, there is no longer a director, but an editorial board. The new staff has an international and inter-religious character, as well as considerable stature and prestige. It is composed of Francesca Bugliani Knox, Elena Buia Rutt, Yvonne Dohna Schlobitten, Chiara Giaccardi, Shahrzad Houshmand Zadeh, Amy-Jill Levine, Marta Rodríguez Díaz, Giorgia Salatiello, Carola Susani, Rita Pinci (coordinator). Editors: Giulia Galeotti, Silvia Guidi, Valeria Pendenza, Silvina Pérez.
A feminist who was not afraid to take to the streets, and has always been very active, Pinci is a journalist and holds a degree in Sociology. She began working as a correspondent for “Il Messaggero” where she worked for 20 years and was subsequently its editor-in-chief and vice director, the first Italian woman to hold these roles in a major national daily newspaper. She was vice director of the web portal Rcs-Hdp and was director of the “Specchio” magazine of “La Stampa”. She was vice director of the weeklies “Panorama” and “Chi”. She has worked for the “Huffington Post Italia” and collaborated as author for the television program “In Mezz’ora” which airs on Sundays on Rai 3. She currently works for Tv2000.
Here are the first words of the new coordinator: "I am pleased about this appointment. It is something I was not expecting and at first I was surprised by the proposal of L’Osservatore Romano’s Editor-in-chief, Andrea Monda. Both because he thought of me, and for the complete freedom that he has assured to me and the Editorial Board. I have followed “Donne Chiesa Mondo” (Women Church World) since it began, and I think the Church needs the gaze and voice of women who represent more than half of the faithful".
She then explains that she is not "a theologian, a historian of the Church, an expert on Vatican issues. I am a journalist, I am a believer". She says that "she was asked to make my expertise available to a community and a newspaper that I have always read with interest, and I believe that it is a great human – before professional – opportunity for me, to be able to take part in this project".
Her contribution " will be mainly that of coordinating the Editorial Board in its work which will be carried out in a collegial manner and in the spirit of sharing the diverse talents and skills of the women who will participate in it and with whom I am proud to share this stretch of the road in a pursuit that for me began even before the professional one, in the first years of university, when I began to share certain fundamental themes of the women’s movement".
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