"Violence against women is an open plague, everywhere".
The Pope said this in the general audience retracing the recent apostolic journey to Budapest and Slovakia and recalling in particular "the testimony of Blessed Anna Kolesárová, a Slovak girl who at the cost of her life defended her dignity against violence: a testimony more than never current, unfortunately ".
During my recent trip "to the heart of Europe - Francis said - I often thought of the fathers of the European Union, as they thought of it, not as an agency for distributing fashionable ideological colonizations".