Pope Francis: Violence against women displays cowardice, degrades all of humanity
Friday, Feb. 05, 2021
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY Abuses and violence against women are “acts of cowardice and a degradation of all humanity,” Pope Francis said.
“We must not look the other way. Let us pray for women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society and have their sufferings considered and heeded by all,” he said.
The pope’s remarks were part of a video message released by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network as part of his prayer intention for the month of February.
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Pope Francis holds a candle as he arrives to celebrate Mass on the occasion of the celebration of the World Day of Consecrated Life at St. Peter s Basilica in the Vatican on February 2, 2021. (Photo: Andrew Medichini / POOL / AFP)
Abuses and violence against women are acts of cowardice and a degradation of all humanity, Pope Francis said. We must not look the other way. Let us pray for women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society and have their sufferings considered and heeded by all, he said.
An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in the Tigray region carries her child near the Sudan-Ethiopia border in Sudan s Kassala state Nov. 22, 2020. Pope Francis prayer intention for February is for women who are victims of violence. (CNS photo/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah, Reuters) Feb. 2, 2021 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY Abuses and violence against women are acts of cowardice and a degradation of all humanity, Pope Francis said. We must not look the other way. Let us pray for women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society and have their sufferings considered and heeded by all, he said.
VATICAN: The Pope Video for January, the first of 2021, was released on Tuesday with the prayer intention that Pope Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope s Worldwide Prayer Network (which includes the Eucharistic Youth Movement – EYM).
The message chosen to open the year 2021 is dedicated to human fraternity: in response to all the challenges facing humanity, the Holy Father asks that we open ourselves to each other and unite, as human beings and as brothers and sisters, “with those who pray according to other cultures, other traditions and other beliefs.”
As he has said on other occasions, “There is no alternative: we will either build the future together or there will not be a future. Religions, in particular, cannot renounce the urgent task of building bridges between peoples and cultures.”