Pope Francis asked this Wednesday that mothers-in-law be treated better and urged them not to criticize, to be careful with their language, in a new catechesis dedicated to the elderly, during the general audience held in Saint Peter’s Square.
Francis held a new audience this Wednesday in San Pedro before several thousand faithful whom he greeted from the popemobile during a tour between the various sectors of the square and appeared with visible problems when walking due to his knee problems, which they have forced him to suspend some acts on his agenda.
In his catechesis, the Pope explained that there are common places regarding family ties created by marriage, especially between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and asked to overcome the most common prejudices.
«Today the mother-in-law is a mythical character, I am not saying that we think they are the devil, but they are always said to be bad. But they are the mother of your husband, of your wife », she recalled.
«They are also mothers, they are older and one of the most beautiful things for grandmothers is to see their grandchildren. It is true that sometimes they are a little special, but they have given everything. At least make them happy, let them carry their old age happily,” she explained.
And to the mothers-in-law he exhorted: «To you, mothers-in-law, I say: be careful with your tongues. It is one of the sins of mothers-in-law, the tongue.
He also explained that youth reveals itself capable of giving new enthusiasm to mature age and that old age discovers itself capable of reopening the future for wounded youth, and in view of this he insisted on the importance of an alliance of generations.
