Pope Francis, Head of the Catholic Church, the Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City State, said, “the evil that opposes God’s light hatches its plots in the shadows of hypocrisy and concealment”.
 |
| Pope Francis greets faithful in Vatican City, Vatican. Photo: Getty Images |
According to Pope Francis: “Today, as at the time of Herod, the evil that opposes God’s light hatches its plots in the shadows of hypocrisy and concealment. How much violence and killing takes place amid deafening silence, unbeknownst to many!”
He called “innocents being slaughtered in their mother’s wombs, little Jesuses of today.”
Pope Francis said: “How many innocents are being slaughtered in our world! In their mothers’ wombs, in odysseys undertaken in desperation and in search of hope, in the lives of all those little ones whose childhood has been devastated by war. They are the little Jesuses of today.”
