Pope's
prayer for children who are victims of violence
(Vatican Radio) Departing from his prepared remarks on Christmas
Day, Pope Francis offered a heartfelt plea for “all those children who are
killed and ill-treated.” He spoke passionately about the “infants killed in the
womb, deprived of that generous love of their parents and then buried in the
egoism of a culture that does not love life”; of the children “displaced due to
war and persecution, abused and taken advantage of before our very eyes and our
complicit silence”; of “infants massacred in bomb attacks” even in the place
where the Son of God Himself was born.
“Their impotent
silence cries out under the sword of so many Herods!” he said, recalling the
slaughter of the innocents by Herod the King following the birth of Christ. “On
their blood stands the shadow of contemporary Herods. Truly there are so many
tears this Christmas, together with the tears of the Infant Jesus.”
Pope Francis prayed
that Jesus might “save the vast numbers of children who are victims of
violence, made objects of trade and trafficking, or forced to become soldiers;
children, so many abused children.”
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