{"id":1177762,"date":"2022-01-01T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1177762"},"modified":"2022-01-01T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T17:35:03","slug":"pope-francis-to-hurt-a-woman-is-to-insult-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-to-hurt-a-woman-is-to-insult-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: \u2018To Hurt a Woman Is to Insult God\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\">20<\/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-to-hurt-a-woman-is-to-insult-god%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=1177762&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 Saturday that hurting a woman insults God because God took on our humanity from a woman, the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n<p>God \u201cdid not do it through an angel; nor did he come directly; he did it through a woman,\u201d the pope insisted in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/homilies\/2022\/documents\/20220101_omelia-madredidio-pace.html\">homily<\/a> for the Catholic feast of Mary Mother of God, a celebration going back to 431 AD, when the Council of Ephesus declared Mary to be <em>Theotokos<\/em>, or mother of God.<\/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>Since mothers \u201cbestow life, and women \u2018keep\u2019 the world, let us all make greater efforts to promote mothers and to protect women,\u201d Francis said. \u201cHow much violence is directed against women! Enough!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new year, 2022, begins \u201cunder the sign of the Holy Mother of God, under the sign of the Mother,\u201d the pontiff declared. \u201cA mother\u2019s gaze is the path to rebirth and growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5800402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nativity-scene-Gerard_van_Honthorst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5800402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nativity-scene-Gerard_van_Honthorst.jpg\" alt=\"nativity\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerard van Honthorst\/Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe need mothers, women who look at the world not to exploit it, but so that it can have life,\u201d he continued. \u201cWomen who, seeing with the heart, can combine dreams and aspirations with concrete reality, without drifting into abstraction and sterile pragmatism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope carried on the allusion by referring to the Church as a mother and this, as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The Church is \u201ca Mother and this is what makes the Church feminine,\u201d Francis asserted. \u201cFor this reason, we cannot find a place for women in the Church without allowing the heart of the Woman and Mother to shine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the place of women in the Church, the great place, from which other places, more concrete and less important, are derived. But the Church is Mother, the Church is woman,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>In moments of tension, mothers \u201cdo not divide, they keep, and in this way enable life to grow,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is the way so many mothers embrace the problems of their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a sustained paean to motherhood, Francis said that mothers\u2019 maternal gaze \u201cdoes not yield to stress; it is not paralyzed before those problems but sees them in a wider perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can think of the faces of all those mothers who care for a child who is ill or experiencing difficulties. What great love we see in their eyes!\u201d he stated. \u201cEven amid their tears, they are able to inspire hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14875067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Black-Mother-and-Baby-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14875067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Black-Mother-and-Baby-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camille Tokerud\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTheirs is a gaze that is conscious and realistic, but at the same time offering, beyond the pain and the problems, a bigger picture, one of care and love that gives birth to new hope,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what mothers do: they know how to overcome obstacles and disagreements, and to instill peace,\u201d he added. \u201cIn this way, they transform problems into opportunities for rebirth and growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need such people, capable of weaving the threads of communion in place of the barbed wire of conflict and division,\u201d he said. \u201cMothers know how to do this.\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 Saturday that hurting a woman insults God because God took on our humanity from a woman, the Virgin Mary. 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