2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Pope Francis wants all women to feel comfortable breastfeeding in Catholic churches.
The pope once again exhorted mothers to breastfeed, during the annual ceremony of administering the sacrament of baptism in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday, advising them that if babies are hungry they should be fed.
"Babies have their own dialect," said the 81-year-old high pontiff, according to National Public Radio (NPR). "If you start crying, the others will follow you, like an orchestra." Pope Francis assured that if babies "start to give a concert" of crying because of hunger, mothers should "dedicate themselves to feeding them" because it is a "language of love".
At last year's ceremony, he had already expressed his support for breastfeeding mothers, comparing the mothers and babies present with the Virgin Mary and the Child God.
"Because the ceremony is a little long, someone is crying because they are hungry," the pope said in Italian after hearing a baby cry. "This is how things are. You mothers, dedicate yourselves to breastfeeding without fear. Just as the Virgin Mary nursed Jesus."
His advice dates from a 2013 interview, in which Pope Francis spoke of a woman he had seen during one of his papal audiences at the Vatican.
"The baby was crying inconsolably when I passed him," he said. "The mother was stroking him and I said, 'Madam, I think the child is hungry.' 'Yes, it is probably time,' she replied. 'Please give him something to eat!' I replied. She was embarrassed and did not want to breastfeed in public while the pope passed by. I would like to say the same to humanity: give people something to eat!”
Translated by Carmen Orozco
This article originally appeared on People.com
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