Christianity was born of a woman's “yes”

"The Mother is not an extra, something optional; she is Christ’s witness," Pope Francis said in his homily during the Mass of the translation of the icon Salus Populi Romani on January 28, 2018. Mary "is not a possibility among others offered by popular devotion; she is at the heart of the Christian faith," says Lucetta Scaraffia.

On the front page of the Italian newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, dated January 31, 2018, the historian Lucetta Scaraffia looks back on the day when the Pope first went to Santa Maria Maggiore before his visit to the Basilica of Santa Sofia in Rome.

"A church that forgets her mother, that forgets her origin," says Lucetta Scaraffia, "is a cold church, one that has lost her heart." - "Christianity," she concludes, "is a faith born of the “yes” of a woman" … "Therefore, without the warmth of the living and recognized presence of women, the Church risks becoming more like a ministry, a bureaucracy, instead of the Good News transmitted by the gospels."

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