Pope
Francis greets conference on women and work
(Vatican
Radio) Pope Francis has gave his support to a two-day International Workshop on
“Women and Work” taking place in Rome beginning Friday.
The
workshop is sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and is focused
on the dichotomy between the needs of work and family facing women today. It
will consider proposals for a more effective promotion of the work of women,
especially in the face of discrimination such as pay disparities and that faced
by mothers in the workplace.
The
Holy Father sent his greetings in a telegram sent through the Secretary of State,
Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
The
telegram expresses the hope of Pope Francis that the symposium “will help to
affirm the indispensable role of women in the family and the formation of
children,” as well as “the essential contribution of women workers in the
building up of economic structures and a politics worthy of humanity, and
identifying concrete suggestions and positive models for the
harmonization of work commitments and family needs.”
The
seminar will also mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1995 publication of
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Letter
to Women.
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