Likewise, he recalled the massacres of innocents “in the womb, on the routes of the desperate who seek hope, in the lives of so many children whose childhood is devastated by war.” For Pope Francis, “these children are the little Jesuses of today.”
The Pontiff also referred to this drama in his this year’s christmas message, in which he pointed out that, with the arrival of Christ into the world, we remember that we were born “for heaven” and stressed that “in the midst of the darkness of the earth, an inextinguishable flame has been lit in Bethlehem; Today, in the midst of the darkness of the world, the light of God prevails.”
On another occasion, the Holy Father pointed out that “it is sad to see how simple and convenient it has become, for some, to deny the existence of life as a solution to problems that can and should be solved for both the mother and the unborn child.”