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Wednesday, November 6
Pope Francis sees violence against women “an almost satanic problem”
The Pope Francis considers “an almost satanic problem” the violence suffered by women , also in their own homes, explained this Sunday in a television program in which heard to a victim of abuse .
“It is very The large number of women attacked and abused at home, also by the husband, is a problem that for me is almost satanic because it involves taking advantage of the weakness of those who cannot defend themselves, who can only stop the blows, it is humiliating, “he said.
The pontiff received in the Vatican a battered woman who he lost his home and his job due to the pandemic , to a homeless woman, a young woman and a prisoner, in the program “Francisco meets the last” , broadcast tonight on Mediaset’s Canale 5.
“Or number of women who are scattered, abused at home, also their husbands, it is big. For me, or problem is that satanic.”
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“Giovanna” recounted to the Pope her experience leaving her home with her four children due to violence and the Pope consoled her and denounced any type of aggression.
“It is already humiliating when a mother or father smacks a child, I always say don’t do it, because dignity is the face,” he said, to later put as an example this woman of “dignity” and “resistance to calamities.”
“I perceive dignity because if not you have it, you wouldn’t be here. Because you have the dignity in your face. A face of suffering but of those who carry out their lives, theirs and their children’s. You are on your way… you are still standing ”, he encouraged her.
Francisco also had words for María, a homeless woman who for years lived in the street and now resides in the Migliori Palace, a reception center near St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican and whose opening was the wish of the pontiff himself.
In his opinion, “the hardest blow of society is ignoring the problem of others, indifference,” he pointed out
“We are entering a culture of indifference in which we try to get away from problems, hunger, pain, lack of work … and with this pandemic the problems have increased ”, he indicated.
Because the crisis has generated what he called “cruelty over cruelty,” which is exercised by “usurers” with those most affected by the pandemic: “The poor and needy fall into the hands of the usurer and they lose everything, because e They do not forgive ”, he warned.
He also heard the case of Pierdonato, a sentenced to life imprisonment and who has been in prison for twenty-five years, time in which with study and reflection he ensures having understood his mistakes.
The pontiff also insisted on defending the objective for the redemption and reeducation of prison systems: “That is why the Church is against the death penalty,” he argued.
Because, he clarified, “a jail without a window does not work, it is a wall, but an existential window, which makes you think ‘I know that I will leave’ . The jail must have windows. ”
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