Pope Francis' public positions still manage to surprise with the themes addressed. Pope Francis criticized a macho culture that treats women ""as a second-class human being'' and assured that "those who take the world forward are women". The statements were made on the occasion of receiving a delegation from the Spanish organization Manos Unidas. "We are used to this macho culture, to seeing women not as the dog or the cat of the house, but as a second-class human being and we forget that those