Pope Francis describes the violence suffered by women as “almost satanic”

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 he heard a victim of abuse.

The number of women attacked and abused at home is very large, also by the husband, it 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.

The Pope argued.

The pontiff received in the Vatican a battered woman who lost her home and her job to the pandemic, to a homeless, a young woman and a prisoner, in the program “Francisco meets the last”, broadcast tonight on Mediaset’s Canale 5.

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The first, Giovanna, told the pope about her experience leaving her home with her four children because of the violence, and the pope consoled her and denounced any type of aggression.

“It’s already humiliating when a mom or dad smacks a child, I always say don’t do it, because dignity is the face“, He indicated, to later put this woman of” dignity “and” resistance to calamities “as an example.

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“I perceive dignity because if you don’t have it, you wouldn’t be here. Because you have the dignity in your face. A face of suffering but of who wears go ahead life, yours and your children’s. You’re on your way … you are still standing”, He encouraged her.

Francis also had words for Mary, a homeless woman who for years lived on the street and who 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.

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In your opinion, “The hardest blow of society is to ignore the problem of others, indifference ”, he pointed out, upon hearing his testimony.

“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 said.

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 they do not forgive ”, he warned.

He also heard the case of Pierdonato, a man sentenced to life imprisonment and who has been in prison for twenty-five years, time in which through study and reflection he claims to have understood his mistakes.

The pontiff insisted on defending the goal for the redemption and reeducation of prison systems: “That is why the Church is against the death penalty”He alleged.

Because, he clarified, “a jail without a window doesn’t work, it is a wall, but an existential window, that makes you think ‘I know I’ll get out’. The jail must have windows ”. (I)