Offenses

Against
Women's
Dignity
Offenses Against Women’s Dignity
• Unfortunately the Christian message about the dignity of women is contradicted
by that persistent mentality which considers the human being not as a person but
as a thing, as an object of trade, at the service of selfish interest and mere pleasure:
the first victims of this mentality are women.

• The Synod Fathers deplored these and other forms of discrimination as strongly
as possible. I therefore ask that vigorous and incisive pastoral action be taken by
all to overcome them definitively so that the image of God that shines in all
human beings without exception may be fully respected.