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Category: Pope Francis

  • Pope Francis UN speech – important right to life points

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    A link to the text. His main speech while he was in the United States. We've excerpted some below the link, with four highlights in blue.  If you hit the link below the picture, it takes about 10-12 minutes for a careful read. The picture, from the Mass at Madison Square Garden.   "The Pope…

  • Pope Francis: abortion & care for ecology interrelated

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    From the National Journal on today's Encyclical "On Care for Our Common Home". #1 on National Journal's "six points from the Encyclical." Population Control Is Not the Answer For Pope Francis, caring about the environment goes hand in hand with taking a strong stand against abortion. "Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of…

  • The Holy Father speaks out on euthanasia

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    Or the mis-appropriately named "right to die." “How great a lie,” he wrote, “lurks behind certain phrases which so insist on the importance of ‘quality of life’ that they make people think that lives affected by grave illness are not worth living.” Pope Francis invited people to see the world and those who are sick…

  • Pope Francis excommunicates a priest

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    For promoting women's ordination and same sex marriage. Excerpts below the link. Australian priest had continued to act publicly as a priest after having priestly facilities removed In the first such excommunication since the new pontiff took office Fr Greg Reynolds was dismissed in a letter from the Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart, which stated…

  • Pope: “Abortion Evidence of Throwaway Culture”

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    Pope Francis, speaking today – "For example, it is frightful even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day," he said. Francis has generally limited his exhortations about abortion, saying church teaching is well known and that he prefers to speak less about the church's moralizing…

  • A new Pope! Here are past statements by Pope Francis on various life issues

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    We gathered these comments from an email Randall Terry sent around and from a couple of other sources, including Pope Francis' new wikipedia entry. We have highlighted a document from the 2007 Latin America Bishops Conference well worth referencing in the future. ON ABORTION – In 2007 Cardinal Bergoglio stated, “We aren’t in agreement with the…