Pope Francis affirmed this Thursday during a meeting with nuns that women are “generous” and “brave” although, sometimes, there are some “neurotic”, like “everywhere”. “It’s like women to be generous, that’s right. Sometimes there is some neurotic but this happens a little everywhere, right?“, the pontiff said.

Francis made these statements when receiving the participants in the General Assembly of the Union of Mothers Superiors of Italy in the Vatican. In his speech, released by the Holy See, he dedicated several words to describe his vision of women as “good people, who know how to create new paths, know how to give” and they are also “brave”.

In addition, he recalled that women, according to the gospel, were the first “witnesses to the resurrection of the Lord”, who announced the news to the rest of the disciples. “These women did not choose the encounter for themselves, nor did they choose to walk alone: ​​they chose to walk with others. Because It’s like women to be generous, that’s right.“, he has defended.

On the consecrated life, Francis asked that they be aware of the “diseases” associated with religious dedication. “I would like to highlight one that goes against everything we have said: bitterness. That spirit of inner bitterness. Always looking at the difficulties, always making a monument to the ‘but, although…’, always repeating that things are bad,” he said.

“Please, when you see that in a community or some nuns, help them get out of this situation, from the melancholic people who always think: “Oh, the old days were better! Things don’t go, and here and there… “This is the devil’s elixir, the liquor of bitterness”, he added, asking the nuns to be “sowers of hope”. “It’s not the same as sowers of optimism, no. Of hope, which is something else. ‘Because being a woman is giving life, opening paths, calling others,” she added.