Pope Francis has compared abortion to 'hiring a hitman' during a Vatican-sponsored anti-abortion conference. Abortion can never be condoned, even when the fetus is gravely sick or malformed, Pope Francis said during a pro-life conference held in the Vatican this morning. He urged doctors and priests to support families to carry all pregnancies to term - even where death is the result. The Pope claimed his opposition to abortion was not for religious issues, but for human ones. He said: 'Is it licit to throw away a life to resolve a problem? 'Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?' Francis disagreed with abortions done on grounds of prenatal testing which reveals problems with the fetus. He said a human being is 'never incompatible with life'.
Even if a baby is so unwell it will die in the womb or shortly after birth Francis says they should be looked after for as long as possible. 'Taking care of these children helps parents to grieve and not only think of it as a loss, but as a step on a path taken together,' Francis said. The conference was organised by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, and the 'Heart in a Drop' Foundation, which works to welcome 'children born in conditions of extreme fragility'. He told the crowd every child is 'a gift that changes the history of a family…and this child needs to be welcomed, loved and cared for'. He said often the 'mere suspicion of disease can change the experience of pregnancy,' and even risk 'throwing women and couples' into a 'deep despair'. But 'the evolution of every disease is always subjective and often not even doctors know how it will manifest itself in the individual', according to the Pope. Francis has spoken out strongly against abortion, although he has also expressed sympathy for women who have had them and made it easier for them to be forgiven.
In 2015 he wrote a letter to the Vatican saying priests could use their discretion to formally forgive women who had an abortion and wanted absolution. At the time Joe O'Brien, writing for Catholics for Choice, said: 'The very narrowness of Francis' idea of a particular "year of mercy" suggests that he still has a blind spot when it comes to women and what they need or want. 'In all the talk about abortion and women, Francis also fails to mention men—a sin of omission I have no doubt—considering that men are just as involved in the baby-making process, as well as often part of family planning decisions.' But in June 2018 the Pope likened abortion to Nazi eugenics - saying parents should accept the children God gives them. At a meeting of an Italian family association he told those gathered that as a child he was horrified to hear stories from his teacher about children 'thrown from the mountain' if they were born with malformations. 'Today we do the same thing,' he said. 'Last century, the whole world was scandalised by what the Nazis did to purify the race. Today, we do the same thing but with white gloves.'
And yet he still refuses to condemn or excommunicate pro-abortion "catholic" politicians.
Charles Phillips
They excommunicate themselves if they read a catechism they would know this.
Justin Rogers
So why doesn't the pope kick them out again?
Wyatt Smith
he already said that a few months ago
Nolan Hall
The point of public excommunication is to get the person to realise their immortal soul is in peril, get them to publicly renounce their heretical view that got them excommunicated, and to come back into communion. The more prominent the person, the more it should serve as example to others. Millions of souls are at risk for the sake of public relations with atheist media.
Luis Sanchez
great statement. Now do a similar statement concerning sodomites my dear pope.
Colton Russell
that would cause a schism, do you really think that they would stay within the church if they were excommunicated?
Justin Martin
They're not really in it anyway. They deny their sins are sins and they aren't seeking forgiveness since they don't consider it sin. Their salvation is on the line and ignoring the problem won't solve it.
Robert Ward
It's not his place to do so. I am not saying he doesn't have universal jurisdiction, I am saying that he is a global leader and it is unfitting for him to address politicians of any respective country. That is for the bishops to address, who ought not be excused for their worldliness and cowardice.
Mason Lee
how do you solve the problem without them and the clergy that support them going full MAD and taking part of the church with them?
Hudson Peterson
Is Pope Francis what they call a Living Saint?
Nathaniel Murphy
He did, multiple times. Of course, in addition to talking about the evil of sin, he also talks about dealing with this evil of sin and people struggling with sin in various, often not optimal, situations, and these are the quotes that everyone obsesses about - but, contrary to the public perception, he is not silent about the evil of sin.
Funny how all the supposedly Francis-loving liberals go silent over all his condemnations of abortion.
James Stewart
Are the Masons still a thing? At least around here the only people I see with Mason plates are old black guys, guessing it's the VFW for retired middle managers. Catholics sperg out about them all the time but I don't even think I know any masons, and I've worked in finance my whole career. Aren't they meant to be infiltrating us or something?
Jackson Wilson
You live in Germany? Here in Brazil, Freemasonry is still very active and heavily infiltrated in politics. Lots of masons in positions of power, including our current Vice-President, our last President, lots of judges and Congressmen.
Adam Wright
I'm certainly not well read on the subject, but they masquerade as simply a social club–they're deists who are also pantheists, they believe that the Supreme Being manifests as nature, and all religions are (flawed) ways of "worshiping" this being, who is unknowable (so, like what the Gnostics thought about the Deity above the Demiurge). They also greatly admire Lucifer as the "liberator" of man… Because they have these pluralistic beliefs, they want to subvert institutions which assert that their God is distinct and the only way to salvation. (The largest being, the Catholic Church.) You will here some say that their greatest "triumph" was the Novus Ordo and Vatican II. I'll leave that up to you to decide.
People always say that he is ambiguous about things like abortion, but is he really? Can you give me any quote in which he supports or permits abortion?
Leave it to a prot to spread fakenews just like they spread a fakegospel.
Blake Collins
Not wrong
Sebastian Roberts
Aww man. I had all these fantasies about a "Dark Pope" who secretly had his own private team of assassination specialists that answered only to him and he puts hits out on all the "problematic" clergyman propagating the usage of usury. This is done in order to clean up the Church before it fractures.
Joshua Diaz
Make that into a fictional novel and I might actually read that.
Levi Perez
Sorry m8. "Hated Pope" is perhaps a more appropriate name for Pope Francis, as no matter what he says or does, someone gets triggered.
