Article: The question of governance and ministry for women (1).

WHEN FATHER MARCO VALENTINI, on March 2, 2006, rose to ask his bishop a question, he may not have expected the answer he received. The 39-year-old priest told his bishop, and the other assembled priests of his diocese, that he had recent and positive experience of the ministry of women--both married and religious--to priests in crisis. It set him to thinking, he said: why not put women side by side with men in the governance of the Church? Every church decision is taken from the male point of view, Father Valentini continued, but women work at the charismatic level through prayer and at the practical level as well. Recall, he said, how Catherine of Siena brought the pope ...

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