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Pope Francis: Angela Merkel got angry when I called Europe ‘a barren woman’
Pope Francis has revealed that he received an angry phone call from Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany after he compared Europe to a “barren woman”.
In a speech to the European parliament in November 2014 the pope delivered a withering attack on a “haggard” Europe which he said was “now a grandmother, no longer fertile and vibrant.”
In an interview with Italy’s Corriere della Sera published on Monday, Francis said he had received an angry phone call from Merkel afterwards.
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“She was a bit angry because I had compared Europe to a barren woman, incapable of producing children,” Francis said.