Violence against women is insulting to God, Pope Francis said in his New Year’s message yesterday.
Francis, 85, called for ‘greater efforts to promote mothers and to protect women’ as he celebrated a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the day the Roman Catholic Church marks both the solemnity of Holy Mary Mother of God as well as its annual World Day of Peace.
The pope has ardently spoken out against domestic violence since the pandemic began, last month telling a woman who had been beaten by her ex-husband that men who commit such acts engage in something that is ‘almost satanic’ during an Italian television programme.
He said in his homily: ‘And since mothers bestow life, and women keep the world (together), let us all make greater efforts to promote mothers and to protect women.
‘How much violence is directed against women! Enough!
‘To hurt a woman is to insult God, who from a woman took on our humanity.’
Europe has seen a deadly resurgence of violence against women since the pandemic began.
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Source: Daily Mail
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