(28 Sep 2024)
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Louvain, Belgium - 28 September 2024
1. Pope Francis in wheelchair leaving building after delivering speech at Catholic University of Louvain
2. Pope receiving hat from university rector Françoise Smets
3. Mid of Smets
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Françoise Smets, Rector at University of Louvain:
“We cannot agree on this position for sure. We are fighting against discrimination for women, and we would like women to have another role in the society and in the church also. We are happy that he agrees on other points of our brief, but, regarding the place of the woman in the society, we cannot agree with his position.”
5. Smets speaking to journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Françoise Smets, Rector at University of Louvain:
“It's very conservative, and it's not the way we want to do in UC Louvain. We want to be open that everybody can develop in our university; women, men, whatever their sexuality or their sexual orientation. It's really not our position. So we are not agreeing with him on this point.”
7. Rector standing next to security guard
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Françoise Smets, Rector at University of Louvain:
“I think it is one thing to change some things. But regarding the place of women, I don't know.”
9. Close pan right of UC Louvain sign
10. Various of crowd in university outfits standing on balcony to see pope
11. Various of pope blessing children
12. Wide from above of crowd, pope moving through with security detail
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis’ comments on women at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium were met with disapproval and incomprehension on Saturday.

Pope Francis travelled to the University Saturday afternoon to speak to students and honor the institution as they celebrate their 600th anniversary.

In a speech the pope spoke about the role of the women in the church, noting that “womanhood speaks to us of fruitful welcome, nurturing and life-giving dedication.”

Several women on the stage looked perplexed as he continued speaking on the importance of “marriage to motherhood, or from virginity to the service of others.”

Francoise Smets, a rector at the University, sat next to the pontiff as he made his speech repeatedly adding, “the church is feminine.”

“We cannot agree on this position for sure. We are fighting against discrimination for women, and we would like women to have another role in the society and in the church also,” Smets said in an interview after the event.

Following the event in the University’s main theatre, the pope made a trip around a the campus in his popemobile greeting the crowd.

AP video by Paolo Santaluca and Trisha Thomas

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