He Pope Francisco defended today that the Church must “rediscover its feminine face” and the world take mothers as a reference “to find peace”, during the New Year’s mass, warning that “whoever hurts a woman, profanes God.”
“The Church needs Mary to rediscover her own feminine face, to become more like her who, as a woman, Virgin and Mother, represents her model and her perfect figure; to give space to women and to be generative through a pastoral care made of care and concern, of patience and maternal courage,” held.
The pontiff opened the year with a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica dedicated to the Virginfocusing his homily on extolling the role of Mary in the Church, based on the Scriptures and the encyclical “Lumen Gentium” (1964) that Paul VI wrote at the revolutionary Second Vatican Council, but also on the civil life of the planet.
“The world also needs to look at mothers and women to find peace, to escape the spirals of violence and hatred, and once again have human eyes and hearts that see.”he pointed out.
Francis explained, before the senior staff of the Roman Curia and other authorities and faithful gathered in the temple, that “Every society needs to welcome the gift of women, of each woman, respect them, care for them, value them.”
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Because, he asserted, “Whoever hurts one woman profanes God, born of a woman,” from Mary.
“Our time, empty of peace, needs a Mother who reunites the human family. Let us look to Mary to be builders of unity,” the pontiff urged.
The Church has celebrated the World Day of Peace on New Year’s Day since 1967, a date for which the Pope previously published a message in which he addresses this issue and which, in this edition, has addressed the risks of Artificial Intelligence.
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“Artificial intelligence must be understood as a galaxy of different realities and we cannot assume ‘a priori’ that its development makes a beneficial contribution to the future of humanity and peace between peoples. “Such a positive result will only be possible if we are able to act responsibly,” said.
Because, according to the Argentine pontiff, technological and scientific progress is allowing “a control over reality never seen until now” and “placing in the hands of man a vast range of possibilities, some of which represent a risk to human survival and a danger to the common home.”
