(ANSA) Vatican City, April 22 - Pope Francis said Wednesday
that "woman is not a replica of man" but "comes directly from
the creative gesture of God, the rib does not express
inferiority or subordination, but on the contrary that the man
and woman are of the same substance and complementary, they have
this reciprocity".
Speaking during his weekly general audience to 25,000
pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square, the pontiff resumed his
catechism on the theme of the couple, saying that "if we don't
find a resurgence of sympathy for this alliance" between man and
woman "capable of protecting the new generations from mistrust
and indifference, children will be ever more uprooted from the
maternal womb".
Such a prospect "will certainly be a loss for everyone, this
uprooting of the alliance," and "we must bring honour again to
marriage and the family," Francis said.
Commenting on the second chapter of Genesis, the pope added
that "to find woman, we can also say to find love, man must
first dream, and then he finds her".
"The fact that God moulds woman while man sleeps underlines
that woman is absolutely not a creature of man, but of God, and
also suggests another thing - to find woman, man first must
dream".
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