（2019．2.22 VaticanNews)
教皇フランシスコが”サミット”二日目、22日の午後のセッションで、21日の会議冒頭以来、初めて発言された。
今回の会議で基調報告をした女性第一号となったリンダ・ジソーニ博士の話を受けた即席の発言。
教皇は、「ジソーニ博士のお話しを聴きながら、私は彼女自身について教会が語るのを聞きました… 教会の傷について、女性に話してくれるように求めることは、彼女自身について、彼女の傷について、教会に話すように求めることなのです… これは形の問題ではない、教会に反映された女性の特質です」と語られた。
そして、教会で女性により大きな役割を任すことは重要だが、単にそれだけではなく「女性を、教会の姿として、私たちの思考に溶け込ませることが問題(注：であり重要）、そして、女性という範疇で教会について考える問題なのです」と強調された。
以下は、教皇の発言のVaticanNewsによる非公式英語訳全文。
Listening to Dr. Ghisoni, I heard the Church speaking about herself. That is, we have all spoken about the Church. In all the interventions. But this time it was the Church herself that spoke. It’s not just a question of style: the feminine genius, reflected in the Church, which is woman.
Inviting a woman to speak is not to enter into the mode of an ecclesiastical feminism, because in the end every feminism ends up being a machismo with a skirt. No. Inviting a woman to speak about the wounds of the Church is to invite the Church to speak about herself, about the wounds she has. And this I believe is the step that we must take with great determination: woman is the image of the Church that is woman, bride, mother. A style. Without this style we would speak of the People of God, but as an organization, perhaps a trade union, but not as a family born of Mother Church.
The logic of Dr Ghisoni’s thought was precisely that of a mother, and it ended with the story of what happens when a woman gives birth to a child. It is the feminine mystery of the Church that is bride and mother. It’s not a question of giving more functions to women in the Church — yes, this is good, but that’s not how the problem is solved — it’s a question of integrating the woman as the image of the Church into our thinking… and also of thinking of the Church with the categories of a woman. Thank you for your testimony.
（翻訳「カトリック・あい」南條俊二）
