She lay in the hospital unconscious and bandaged like a mummy, having barely survived a brutal assault. Her husband of two years had bashed her head, face and body with dozens of blows from a rolling pin before throttling her and then stabbing her 20 times with a kitchen knife, all as their screaming toddler looked on.

Stabbed 20 times by her husband, she now fights laws favoring abusers

Pope Francis said on Tuesday the Catholic Church had to acknowledge a history of male domination and sexual abuse of women and children and repair its reputation among young people or risk becoming "a museum".

Church should admit history of abuse of women, male domination: Pope Francis

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Stabbed 20 times by her husband, she now fights laws favoring abusers

Church should admit history of abuse of women, male domination: Pope Francis