"The number of women beaten, abused at home, even by their husbands, is so, so great. The problem is that for me it is almost satanic, because it is taking advantage of the weakness of someone who cannot defend himself, he can only stop the blows. It is humiliating. , very humiliating ".
Pope Francis says this to a woman victim of violence protagonist with other "invisibles" of an exceptional meeting at the Santa Marta house broadcast this evening by Canale 5. "It is humiliating when a father or mother slaps a child in the face, never slap in the face. Because dignity is the face. This is the word I would like to take back, "he added.