2023-10-26 07:20:45
Pope Francis. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP
Pope Francis sharply criticized the “sexist and dictatorial attitudes” of some priests, during a meeting of the ongoing synod on the future of the Church.
Surprise, Wednesday evening, during a meeting of the current synod on the future of the Church, Pope Francis improvised in Spanish in front of the four hundred participants and experts gathered until Sunday and for a month to reflect on the future challenges of the Catholic Church.
While this synod seeks to give more space to women, particularly in decisions, the pope praised the role of women who are often at the origin of the transmission of the faith: “We, the members of the hierarchy » (…) « We generally received the faith from our mothers and grandmothers. » Adding: “I like to emphasize that, among God’s faithful and holy people, faith is transmitted in dialect, and generally in feminine dialect».
And François explains: “It is not only because the Church is Mother but it is because women precisely best reflect the face of the Church, the Church is woman. Women are patient, they know how to discover the resources of the Church. There…
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