Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals continued their discussions about the role of women in the church, listening to women experts and discussing the possibilities according to canon law.
This is the fourth time the pope and his nine-member Council of Cardinals have invited women to make presentations at their meetings.
Women experts, including an Anglican bishop, attended the December, February and April meetings. The council met 17-18 June in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the pope’s residence, the Vatican press office said.
Salesian Sister Linda Pocher, a professor of Christology and Mariology at Rome’s Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences “Auxilium,” introduced the speakers on the first day, which was dedicated to the women’s talks and the group’s reflections.
Valentina Rotondi, a professor and researcher specialising in social sciences, spoke about seeing “the economy as care and good management in the context of a profound intergenerational relationship,” the press office said.
Donata Horak, a professor of canon law in Italy, reflected on canon law by making several contrasts, “such as justice and mercy, consultative power and deliberative power, hierarchical principle and ecclesiology of communion, democratisation and the monarchical model,” the press office said.
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