Catholic Church believes that abortion is an atrocious act, a grave sin and they have certainly excommunicated many for commiting the act.
However, because it is a Holy Year, a year of Jubilee, the Pope wants to show mercy and allow all priests to forgive any woman with a repentant “contrite heart”.
Pope Francis said that women who have had abortions, “bear in their heart the scar of this agonizing and painful decision” and thus mercy is to be shown during Dec. 8 to Nov. 26.
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only god can forgive you, priests are there as guides, and with this pope they will be guiding you awry. sorry, but hes an idiot.
Forget the pope and anyone dumb enough to affiliate themselves with that.
True! I just don’t understand how anyone could support an organization that has thrived of the sexual exploitation of children for about 300plus years…
It’s WRONG! Heis not Jesus!
Is he for real ??? Unbelievable !!!
Priests have had that right for centuries. They don’t need the Pope to state the obvious !
omg…this definitely is not the Catholic church that I was raised in. This guy certainly has some explaining to do when he gets to those pearly gates.
So, the Pope give forgiveness for murder!!! How quaint of him!!!!!
Only God can forgive . He ain’t a saint either
GET OUT OF THE LAW! there is no MEDIATOR between Our Lord And ANY MAN! mans Wisdom Is Infinitely Smaller Than Gods Word! The Old Testament Is The New Testament Concealed! The New Testament Is The Old Testament REVEALED! Its GRACE NOT rituals And Rules!