When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis almost ten years ago, the world was immediately captivated by his vibrant personality, his simplicity, his love of the poor, and the fresh, and frankly, unusual papal vocabulary he has often adopted. to his occasional mother-in-law jokes, to his use of symbolic imagery and his shoot-from-the-hip quips, some of which have gotten him into trouble, Pope Francis has been a soundbite machine.
Many of his comments have been appreciated, such as his description of God’s love as a “caress” and his focus on forgiveness, and others less so, such as his flap on a handful of occasions that women are “the cherry on top of the cake,” and thus need to be more fully included in the church. While it was Hummes that uttered this phrase to him, Pope Francis has taken it to heart to such an extent, that it has become emblematic of much of his style as pope, often speaking out on behalf of the most marginalized and those on the “existential peripheries” of life, and prioritizing them in his travels.
This one line is perhaps the most famous of all Pope Francis’s soundbites over the years, and it has come to represent his broader outreach to the LGBTQ community throughout his 10 years as pope. “It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else,” he said.
To this end, he referred to the case of a woman he’d met who had seven children by Caesarean section and was expecting her eighth, saying the pregnancy was irresponsible because it put the mother’s health and that of her unborn child at risk, while she already had so many who needed her, and noted that population experts had advised three children per family.
Though he had mentioned the phrase before, in a speech to participants in an assembly organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture in 2015, he repeated this desire, saying the church needs women who are “involved in pastoral responsibilities, in the accompaniment of persons, families and groups, as well as in theological reflection.”
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