Women and Their Lack of Recognition. Pope: A Suffering to Listen To
Francis signs preface to “Women and Ministries in the Synodal Church”
Newly published volume written by Cardinals Hollerich and O’Malley and three theologians, including Anglican Bishop Wells, who attended the February C9 meeting. “The drama of abuse has forced an eye-opening look at the scourge of clericalism. It affects not only ordained ministers, but a distorted way of exercising power in the Church into which everyone can fall: including lay people and women.”
Women, their role and suffering for recognition “of what they are and what they do.” Then ordained ministries, synodality, the drama of abuse that opened eyes to the “plague” of clericalism and the distorted exercise of power within the Church, even by the laity, even by women themselves.
There are all the ecclesially sensitive issues in the preface that Pope Francis signs for the book, published by the Paulines, “Women and Ministries in the Synodal Church,” a volume edited by three theologians and two cardinals: Salesian Sister Linda Pocher, professor of Christology and Mariology at the Auxilium in Rome (who also signs the introduction); Jo B. Wells, bishop of the Church of England and undersecretary general of the Anglican Communion; Giuliva Di Berardino, consecrated member of the Ordo Virginum of the diocese of Verona, liturgist, teacher and head of spirituality courses and spiritual exercises. With them were Cardinals Jean-Claude Hollerich, archbishop of Luxembourg and general rapporteur of the Synod, and Seán Patrick O’Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
Salvatore Cernuzio – Vatican City