The importance of women in the 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 on Feb. 7, 2024, the Catholic News website reports.
Pope Francis made his remarks 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."
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