{"id":1135229,"date":"2021-12-20T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135229"},"modified":"2021-12-20T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:20:10","slug":"pope-francis-violence-against-women-is-satanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-violence-against-women-is-satanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Violence Against Women Is \u2018Satanic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-violence-against-women-is-satanic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis said Sunday that there is something diabolical about violence committed against women.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on an Italian television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tgcom24.mediaset.it\/cronaca\/papa-francesco-e-gli-ultimi-quattro-invisibili-intervistano-il-santo-padre-perche-la-violenza-e-la-sofferenza-_43370872-202102k.shtml\">special<\/a> titled \u201cFrancis and the Invisible People,\u201d the pontiff had harsh words for domestic violence as well as prison sentences with no hope of parole.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe number of women who are beaten and abused, even by their husbands, is very, very great\u201d the pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2021\/12\/19\/papa-francesco-e-il-messaggio-sugli-ultimi-la-violenza-sulle-donne-e-satanica-e-il-sovraffollamento-delle-carceri-e-disumano\/6431641\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe problem is that for me it is almost satanic because it is taking advantage of the weakness of someone who cannot defend herself but can only shield herself from the blows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is humiliating, very humiliating,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt is humiliating when a dad or mom slaps a child in the face, it\u2019s very humiliating and I always say, never slap in the face. Why? Because a person\u2019s face is his dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program featured conversation between the pope and four people representing the \u201cperipheries\u201d he often refers to: a victim of domestic violence, a homeless woman, a convict serving life imprisonment, and an 18-year-old girl representing young people who felt abandoned during the coronavirus lockdowns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19197818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236981433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19197818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236981433-1024x696-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"673\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pope Francis greets a woman during an ecumenical prayer with migrants at the Roman Catholic church of the Holy Cross near the United Nations buffer zone in the Cypriot city of Nicosia, Europe\u2019s last divided capital, on December 3, 2021. (ANDREAS SOLARO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Francis denounced life sentences for criminals, insisting that there must always be hope of eventual freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Prison without parole \u201cis certainly a wall, it is not human!\u201d the pope asserted. \u201cAny conviction for a crime committed must have a hope, a window.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA prison without a window is wrong, it is a wall,\u201d he continued. \u201cA cell without a window is wrong. Not necessarily a physical window, but an existential window, a spiritual window.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be able to say: \u2018I know that I will get out, I know that I will be able to do this or that.\u2019 This is why the Church is against the death penalty, because in death there is no window, there is no hope, a life is closed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is hope on the other side, but there is none here,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is why the prison must have a window.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>During the discussions, Francis insisted that \u201cwe are entering a culture of indifference where we try to distance ourselves from real problems, from the pain of the lack of housing, from a lack of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, with this pandemic, the problems have increased because loan sharks come knocking on the door offering to lend money,\u201d he said. \u201cA poor person, a person in need, falls into the hands of the loan sharks and loses everything, because they do not forgive.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.272030651341\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I suffered a lot and I\u2019m very disappointed \u2026 Because the Pope did nothing when he was archbishop here. Everyone told me: \u2018Write to him, he\u2019s bound to reply.\u2019 But nothing.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OwXSRUaFMj\">https:\/\/t.co\/OwXSRUaFMj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1040574967124058112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is cruelty on top of cruelty,\u201d he said. \u201cI say this to urge people not to be na\u00efve: easy credit is not a way out of the problem; it brings you new problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope also shared a tactic he uses when hearing confessions to make people more sympathetic to the plight of the poor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hear confessions I ask: \u2018Do you help the poor?\u2019 \u2018Yes, I give alms,\u2019 some say. \u2018But when you give alms, do you place the money in the person\u2019s hand or do you throw it without making contact?\u2019 \u2018I didn\u2019t notice, I don\u2019t know.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018When you give alms, do you look into the eyes of the poor person?\u2019\u201d he continued dramatizing. \u201cMany say no. \u2018With this alms that you give drily, mechanically, you discharge yourself of guilt. But it is not human.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, when you look a poor man in the face, your heart changes because it has reached the \u2018sacrament of the poor,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say \u2018sacramental\u2019 so that nobody calls me a heretic,\u201d he continued, \u201cbecause the gaze of a poor person changes you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Pope Francis said Sunday that there is something diabolical about violence committed against women. Appearing on an Italian television special titled \u201cFrancis and the Invisible People,\u201d the pontiff &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1896136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}