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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The importance of women in the Catholic Church cannot be “reduced” to the question of ministry, Pope Francis told members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Pope Francis made his remarks Feb. 8 in the context of explaining how every attempt at Church reform, like the Second Vatican Council‘s reform of the liturgy, must be motivated by “spousal fidelity: the Church-bride will always be more beautiful the more she loves Christ the bridegroom, to the point of belonging to him totally, to the point of conforming to him fully.”
Mentioning the Church as the bride of Christ, the pope added to his prepared text: “I want to say one thing about women’s ministry. The Church is woman, the Church is mother, the Church has its figure in Mary, and the Church-woman, whose figure is Mary, is greater than Peter; that is, it is something else.”
“One cannot reduce everything to ministry,” he said. “The woman in herself has a very great significance in the Church-as-woman, without reducing it to ministry. This is why I said that every instance of reform in the Church is always a question of spousal fidelity, because it (the Church) is woman.”
At their plenary meeting in Rome Feb. 6-9, members of the dicastery were focused on ways to improve the liturgical formation of priests and laity.
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Pope Francis made his remarks Feb. 8 in the context of explaining how every attempt at Church reform, like the Second Vatican Council‘s reform of the liturgy, must be motivated by “spousal fidelity: the Church-bride will always be more beautiful the more she loves Christ the bridegroom, to the point of belonging to him totally, to the point of conforming to him fully.”
Mentioning the Church as the bride of Christ, the pope added to his prepared text: “I want to say one thing about women’s ministry. The Church is woman, the Church is mother, the Church has its figure in Mary, and the Church-woman, whose figure is Mary, is greater than Peter; that is, it is something else.”
“One cannot reduce everything to ministry,” he said. “The woman in herself has a very great significance in the Church-as-woman, without reducing it to ministry. This is why I said that every instance of reform in the Church is always a question of spousal fidelity, because it (the Church) is woman.”
At their plenary meeting in Rome Feb. 6-9, members of the dicastery were focused on ways to improve the liturgical formation of priests and laity.
Liturgy as encounter with Christ
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Don't reduce women to the ministry question, pope says
The importance of women in the Catholic Church cannot be "reduced" to the question of ministry, Pope Francis told members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
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