Mary 2.0

"[1] The group laid out its demands in an open letter to Pope Francis, which read as follows:[2] "We therefore call upon the Catholic Church, in accordance with many before us...

In addition, church squares were covered with white sheets symbolizing "charity, sorrow, and a new beginning"[5] to serve as a canvas for expressing complaints and demands in creative and emphatic ways.

[17] Stephan Burger, the Archbishop of Freiburg, was sympathetic to women's denial of access to the deaconry and priesthood, but did not see any space for it in the Canon law of the Catholic Church.

[19] Critics of the awareness week included the archbishop Georg Gänswein, personal secretary to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI., who warned against "creating a new church and tinkering around with its DNA.

[20] The Catholic Johanna Stöhr from the diocese Augsburg founded the initiative Mary 1.0,[21] in order to "show that there are also women who are faithful to the teachings of the church.

Peter Winnemöller believed that self invented services did not satisfy the Sunday obligation and that the boycott did not meet the requirements of a dispensation, therefore making the participants guilty of a mortal sin.