Suffragette - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:48:17 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Suffragette - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Actor Meryl Streep slams Catholic Church for sexism https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/10/13/actor-meryl-streep-slams-catholic-church-for-sexism/ Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:07:31 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=77705 Actor Meryl Streep has said that the Catholic Church is contributing to "infuriating" levels of sexism in the world. Speaking at the London Film Festival last week, Streep said "the Church is a body that excludes people". "There are two places you [women] can't vote in the world - in Saudi Arabia, although they are Read more

Actor Meryl Streep slams Catholic Church for sexism... Read more]]> Actor Meryl Streep has said that the Catholic Church is contributing to "infuriating" levels of sexism in the world.

Speaking at the London Film Festival last week, Streep said "the Church is a body that excludes people".

"There are two places you [women] can't vote in the world - in Saudi Arabia, although they are registering people supposedly, and the Vatican," she said.

"That seems wrong to me."

Streep plays suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in the new film "Suffragette".

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