Pope Francis said that as a child there was a woman named Angelina in his neighbourhood and she was constantly ridiculed by others, especially children, because of her mental illness. “It is understandable when a person resents someone stronger than them, perhaps because of envy … but toward the weak? What makes us do that? It is something habitual, as if I need to ridicule another person to feel confident as if it were a necessity,” he said. “I ask myself: What is within these people? What is it within us that pushes us to mock and mistreat others weaker than we are?” the Pope asked. Similar accounts in other Bible stories - from Abraham’s wife Sarah ridiculed by her servant to Job who was rejected by his wife after his misfortune - are stories that Christians should take time to reflect on, the Pope said. The Pope centred his homily on the day’s reading from the First Book of Samuel, which recounts the verbal abuse Hannah endured because she was unable to conceive a child. 8 at morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae. Because attacking the weak is the work of Satan,” the Pope said in his homily Jan. “When we realize that we harbour within ourselves the desire to attack someone because they are weak, we have no doubt: It is the devil. Just as the influence of the Holy Spirit is recognized when one does an act of charity, Christians also must recognize the presence of the devil when bullying occurs, Pope Francis said. Someone because they are weak, it is the devil, the Pope said.
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