The Catholic Church’s synodal process is an invitation to invest in the pastoral and professional formation of women in the Church, said the newly elected president of a global network of Catholic women’s associations.
As a network of organisations that represents some eight million members worldwide, WUCWO has a bird’s eye view on the state of Catholic women around the world. In its general assembly, participants set priorities for the organisation’s next four years, one of which is particularly pertinent in the Church today: increasing women’s formation and participation in the Church through a spirit of synodality.
Already, she said, the Church’s synodal process has been an important step in making women feel that they have a significant role to play in the life of the Church. Among the biggest obstacles to women’s participation in the Church that arose in the survey, Santamarina said, is clericalism ? a sense of ecclesial superiority on the part of the clergy, often condemned by Pope Francis ? coupled with a fear of men by some women in the Church. One way to combat that, she proposed, is through a greater presence of women in seminaries and throughout priestly formation, to allow women and men, and clergy and laity, to “walk together as Church.
“When you begin to open a door, all of a sudden you want to push it wide open. But you need to find a balance which is important,” she said. “For us, it is the magisterium of the Pope that guides us. We are always under the light of the Pope’s magisterium, and that is what helps us not become polarised, to not go to the extremes.”
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