Pope Francis marked New Year's Day with a call for the faithful to reject abortion, emphasizing the need to protect life from conception to natural death. In his homily at St. Peter's Basilica, he prayed for care for all children and the vulnerable, urging a 'firm commitment' to respect the dignity of every human life.
ROME — Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death.Francis, 88, celebrated a New Year’s Day Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday that was dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
After two doctrinaire popes, Francis complained in the first months of his papacy in 2013 that the church had become obsessed by “small-minded rules” about hot-button issues such as abortion.Francis now regularly refers to procuring an abortion as “hiring a hitman to solve a problem.
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