With the jubilee focused on "genuine experience of God's mercy," the Pontiff wants above all to open the door to those who are excluded. Among them, the prisoners, who can not go to Rome, and even in churches diocesan enabled to lose: even, 'every time that will pass through the door of their cell, turning the thoughts and prayers to the Father, "for they will be like passing for Port St. Francis writes. And the mercy of this holy year will also be open to the faithful who attend churches officiated by the minority Lefebvre, in the hope that we can recover the full communion with their priests and superiors.
But above all, the Pope addressed words full of love, and not to blame, to women who have had abortions. Women who, for the most part, have contradicted the teachings of the Church to have chosen to abortion - a "serious evil" - as the law on which to build their release. But they realized that, in their difficult personal experience, that abortion can not be a way of liberation, and that is difficult, beyond the decisions taken in large measure to influence the current ideologies, clear within themselves the heavy guilt you feel for having prevented a creature to come to light.
To them, whose hearts are weighed down by this wound apparently irremediable, Francis addresses, offering what only God's love can give: forgiveness. In the words of the Pope's great mercy. "I know - sure in his letter - the conditioning that brought them to this decision. I know it is a moral and existential drama. I met so many women who carried in their hearts the scar to this painful and difficult choice. What has happened is deeply unfair; yet, only understand it in its truth can not allow to lose hope. "
The greatness of the Christian tradition is all about: to forgive without diminish the importance of the moral sin, without thinking that it was not bad. In front of a world that wants to consider abortion a right like the others, in front of ideological movements that have made the first step in the way of women's freedom, Francis reiterates its condemnation of this injustice at the very moment in which offers forgiveness .
That forgiveness that many women can not grant themselves, even when they think with reason not to have committed anything wrong. Why abortion - and every woman knows it - it's an experience that marks indelibly life, a weight that you will in forever. Only forgiveness can free from this burden, not the pride to a choice which is also increasingly seen as inevitable, as argued by the dominant culture.
With a few fatherly words, by granting to each priest to forgive this sin during the Jubilee which is now so widespread that it deserves to lose an opening wider, Pope Francis shows his heart to the women of our time. He does not ask for anything else but to recognize what their bodies and their hearts have already recognized, beyond their control. And in return it offers the only solution, the only liberation: forgiveness.
It is a courageous act of love towards women, and a recognition of their true nature, beyond ideologies and political correctness. An act that would have an echo even louder if, within the Church, women were granted the place they deserve.
