![]() “Her biography tells of great perseverance in seeking to remain with the Lord, like a branch in the vine, and shows her desire to share this experience with many others.” This he continued, became particularly visible when, after the end of the war the country needed rebuilding according to a democratic process. He upheld the work of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart that is marking its 99 th National Day and noted that through the Athenaeum, Blessed Armida Barelli contributed to forming the civil conscience in hundreds of thousands of young people, including many women.” “We need an integrated model, which combines competence and performance, often associated with the male role, with the care of ties, listening, the ability to mediate, to network and to foster relationships,” he said, traits that have long been considered the prerogative of the female gender and often underestimated. ![]() ![]() In his greeting to the present, the Pope reflected on the issue of female leadership in the ecclesial and social spheres, of which he said, Barelli can be considered a formidable forerunner. In the preface to a new biography of Venerable Armida Barelli, Pope Francis describes the pioneering laywoman as a witness “to the connection between what is heard and what is.
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