He Pope Francisco asked “listen to suffering and joy“belonging women What “suffer from non-recognition“This is stated in the preface to the recently published book “Women and the Ministries of the Synodal Church.”

“Listening to them without judgment or prejudice, we realize that in many places and in many situations suffer precisely because of lack of recognition about who they are and what they do, and also about what they could do and be if they had the space and the opportunity,” the pontiff says.

In this sense, according to Vatican NewsThe Bishop of Rome specified that “the women who suffer the most are often the ones closest to us, the ones who are most accessible, prepared and willing to serve God and His Kingdom.” For Francisco, the merit of the volumeWomen and Ministry in the Synodal Churchtherefore, “it does not begin with an idea, but with listening to reality, with a reasonable interpretation of the experience of women in the Church.”

Moreover, the Pope emphasizes that “ drama of violencemade them “open their eyes to the disaster clericalismThis concerns not only ordained ministers, but also the distorted way of exercising power within the Church, into which anyone can fall: both laymen and even women“.