Pope: Whoever hurts a woman defiles God

He dad today defended that the Church must “rediscover your feminine face” and the world will take mothers as a reference “to find peace”, during the New Year Mass, warning that “Whoever hurts a woman, defiles God.”

“The Church needs Mary to rediscover her own feminine face, to become more like her who, as a woman, Virgin and Mother, represents her role model and her perfect figure; to give space to women and to be generative through pastoral care. and care, patience and maternal courage,” he said.

The Pope opened the year with a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica dedicated to the Virgin, focusing his sermon on praising the role of Mary in the Church, based on the Holy Scriptures and the encyclical “Lumen Gentium” (1964) by Paul VI. revolutionary Second Vatican Councilbut also in the civilian life of the planet.

“The world also needs to look at mothers and women to find peace, to escape spirals of violence and hatred and have human eyes and hearts that see again,” he said.

Francis explained in front of the senior staff of the Roman Curia and other authorities and believers gathered in the temple that “every society should welcome the gift of women, every woman, respect them, take care of them, appreciate them”.

Because, he asserted, “whoever hurts a woman, defiles God, born of a woman”, Mary.

“Our time, deprived of peace, needs a Mother who reunites the human family. Let’s look to Mary as a builder of unity,” urged the Pope.

The church has been celebrating the New Year since 1967. World Day of Peacethe date for which the Pope had previously published a message addressing this issue and which in this edition dealt with the risks of artificial intelligence.

“We must understand artificial intelligence as a galaxy of different realities and we cannot assume ‘a priori’ that its development will make a useful contribution to the future of humanity and peace among nations. Such a positive result will only be possible if we are able to behave responsibly,” he said.

Because, according to the Argentinian Pope, technological and scientific progress allow “control over reality that has not been seen before” and “place in the hands of man a wide range of possibilities, some of which pose a risk to human survival.” a danger to the common home”.