Pope Francis: Listen to women, men are too machista — RT News
Pope Francis has called on men to listen to women as they have “much
to tell us." Women are able to ask questions that men can’t grasp, the
pontiff told an audience in the Philippines, where his comments drew
instant applause.
"Women have much to
tell us in today's society,” Francis told a mostly male
audience at the Catholic University of Santo Tomas in Manila, on
the last day of a weeklong visit to Philippines and Sri
Lanka.
His impromptu comments were welcomed with applause from the
audience, which according to organizers’ estimates was 30,000
people.
“At times we men are too 'machista', the Argentinian
pontiff said using word for the term for extreme male chauvinism
in his native Spanish.
According to the 78-year-old Catholic leader, we “don’t allow
room for women but women are capable of seeing things with a
different angle from us, with a different eye.”
Pope
Francis embraces a boy and a girl during a meeting with young people at
Manila university, January 18, 2015 (Reuters / Stefano Rellandini)
