In an interview to a Catholic weekly magazine (‘Credere’),
Pope Francis responds to
a question about the female face of the Church, saying it is not easy to
understand the maternity of God, so he prefers to speak of the tenderness of
God as our mother and father. If we are open to this revolution of tenderness,
the Pope says, we ourselves will become more tolerant, more patient and more
tender, learning not to treat people as objects. The Pope gives the example of
an employer who lays off his workers over the summer so that he doesn’t have to
pay the extra pension or social security costs of a full time worker. If we are
able to put ourselves in that other person’s shoes, the Pope says, then things
change and we stop thinking about the money in our own pockets.
Read report here
Read interviedw in Italian here
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