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“On the one hand, they favor respect and the promotion of women; but on the other, they continually transmit messages imprinted with hedonism and consumerism"
Pope Francis lamented that the mass media have an “ambiguous” role in combatting violence against women.
The Pope said this on November 9 as he addressed organizers of a campaign promoted by Radio1Rai, an Italian state radio channel, and Cadmi D.I.Re, an Italian non-profit that helps women victims of abuse.
“Violence against women is a poisonous weed that plagues our society and must be pulled up from its roots,” the Pope said. “And these roots are cultural and mental, growing in the soil of prejudice, of possession, of injustice.”
The Holy Father has spoken on many occasions about this societal plague, calling out the tendency to reduce women to their bodies, and use them as a “possession.”
“Unfortunately, the mass media still play an ambiguous role in this,” the Pope observed. “On the one hand, they favor respect and the promotion of women; but on the other, they continually transmit messages imprinted with hedonism and consumerism, whose models, both male and female, obey the criteria of success, self-assertion, competition, the power to attract others and dominate them.”
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Pope Francis lamented that the mass media have an “ambiguous” role in combatting violence against women.
The Pope said this on November 9 as he addressed organizers of a campaign promoted by Radio1Rai, an Italian state radio channel, and Cadmi D.I.Re, an Italian non-profit that helps women victims of abuse.
“Violence against women is a poisonous weed that plagues our society and must be pulled up from its roots,” the Pope said. “And these roots are cultural and mental, growing in the soil of prejudice, of possession, of injustice.”
The Holy Father has spoken on many occasions about this societal plague, calling out the tendency to reduce women to their bodies, and use them as a “possession.”
“Unfortunately, the mass media still play an ambiguous role in this,” the Pope observed. “On the one hand, they favor respect and the promotion of women; but on the other, they continually transmit messages imprinted with hedonism and consumerism, whose models, both male and female, obey the criteria of success, self-assertion, competition, the power to attract others and dominate them.”
Love doesn’t demand prisoners
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Pope points out mass media's role in violence against women
"On the one hand, they favor respect and the promotion of women; but on the other, they continually transmit messages imprinted with hedonism and consumerism"
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