A kerfuffle erupted last week when the editor of the Vatican newspaper’s monthly women’s magazine supplement abruptly quit, claiming she would be taking the whole editorial board with her.
The move was a shock: Lucetta Scaraffia, the editor of the monthly Donna Chiesa Mondo insert – published in English as Women Church World – started the magazine and had led it since 2012.
There was some confusion on the question of who, exactly, resigned. At least two of the names on the masthead remained. Highly placed sources at the paper also told the Catholic Herald there are members of the editorial board who did not participate in the resignation en masse. The situation is fluid, then, and one presumes whatever negotiations there are, are delicate.
Scaraffia grew the monthly from a four-page cultural insert into a full glossy that has regularly run hard-hitting analysis and insightful commentary in several languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, and English. The February edition contained a major report on the sexual abuse of women – especially women religious – by clerics.
