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Pope: Women should be freed from violence and slavery. The feast of Mary assumed into heaven is a proclamation, for us, too, of “the new heavens and the new earth,” with the victory of Christ risen …More
Pope: Women should be freed from violence and slavery.

The feast of Mary assumed into heaven is a proclamation, for us, too, of “the new heavens and the new earth,” with the victory of Christ risen from the dead and the definitive defeat of the evil one. Mary, in fact, precedes us along the path walked by those who, through Baptism, have joined their life to Jesus, as Mary joined her life to His. Pope Francis was speaking of Mary’s path toward the heavenly Jerusalem ahead of the Angelus prayer, recited together with thousands of people gathered in St Peter’s Square on the Solemnity of the Assumption. Mary, a humble and simple girl from a village on the periphery of the empire, welcomed Jesus and took Him into her arms when He was yet a Baby; and she was t ...