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Pope
Francis has tendered an apology to a woman after slapping her hands
twice for stopping him from leaving while greeting admirers.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis apologized on Wednesday for having angrily slapped a
woman’s arm when she had grabbed hold of his hand and yanked him towards
her, saying he had lost his patience and set a “bad example”.
His unusual apology came after he used his first homily of the new
year to denounce violence against women, which he compared to profaning
God.
Pope Francis, 83, had a sharp encounter with a woman on Tuesday evening during a walkabout in St. Peters Square.
The pilgrim, who has not been identified, unexpectedly seized his
hand and pulled him towards her, causing him evident alarm. A clearly
disgruntled Francis wrenched himself free by slapping down at her arm.
“So many times we lose patience, even me, and I apologize for yesterday’s bad example,” the pope told thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday at the end of the traditional New Year Mass.
He had used the service to issue a forthright condemnation of the abuse of women in modern society.
“All violence inflicted on women is a desecration of God,” he told a packed St. Peter’s Basilica.
“How often is a woman’s body sacrificed on the profane altar of advertising, profit, pornography,” he said, adding that the female body “must be freed from consumerism, it must be respected and honored”.
Despite creating life, women “are continually offended, beaten,
raped, forced into prostitution” and made to have abortions, he said.
“We can understand our level of humanity by the way we treat a woman’s
body,” he told the congregation.
During his homily, Francis also addressed another theme close to
his heart, immigration, saying women who moved abroad to provide for
their children should be honored, not scorned.
“Today even motherhood is humiliated, because the only growth that interests us is economic growth,” he said.
“There are mothers, who risk perilous journeys to desperately
try to give the fruit of the womb a better future and are judged to be
redundant by people whose bellies are full of things, but whose hearts
are empty of love.”
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, which allows only
unmarried men to be ordained as priests, also said women “must be fully
involved in decision-making processes”.
The pope said last April the Church had to acknowledge a history of
male domination and sexual abuse of women. A month later, he appointed
for the first time four women to an important Vatican department that
prepares the major meetings of world bishops.
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