On this International Women’s Rights Day on 8 March, may we acknowledge with gratitude how far we have already come and commit ourselves even more resolutely, women and men together by virtue of our equal baptismal dignity, to walk better together and discern how the Spirit is calling us to give concrete expression to this recommendation of the synodal assembly ‘for full implementation of all the opportunities already provided for in Canon Law with regard to the role of women, particularly in those places where they remain underutilised’ in order to remove the obstacles still encountered by too many women ’ in obtaining a fuller recognition of their charisms, vocation and place in all the various areas of the Church’s life. This is to the detriment of serving the Church’s shared mission ’ (FD §60.)
It is in this spirit that today we offer you these extracts from the documents of the synod on synodality concerning women, from the preparatory document to the Final Document of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
The General Secretariat of the Synod
Vatican City, 8 March 2025
