{"id":10819,"date":"2013-03-13T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=10819"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T03:01:57","slug":"pope-francis-i-powerfully-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2013\/03\/pope-francis-i-powerfully-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis I: Powerfully Pro Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Pundits who were pushing for a pope who would abandon 2,000 years of Catholic teaching and go chasing after the moral fashions of the world will probably be disappointed in Pope Francis I.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new Holy Father has a decades-long record of supporting the sanctity of human life, traditional marriage and the Gospel support of the poor. For instance, he called abortion a \u201cdeath penalty\u201d for unborn children in a 2007 speech.<\/p>\n

The LifeNews.com article describing this says in part:<\/p>\n

\n

The archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio \u2026\u00a0once called abortion a \u201cdeath sentence\u201d for unborn children, during a 2007 speech and likening opposition to abortion to opposition to the death penalty.<\/p>\n

\nIn an October 2, 2007 speech Bergoglio said that \u201cwe aren\u2019t in agreement with the death penalty,\u201d but \u201cin Argentina we have the death penalty.\u00a0 A child conceived by the rape of a mentally ill or retarded woman can be condemned to death.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 The remarks came during the presentation of a document called the Aparecida Document, a joint statement of the bishops of Latin America.<\/p>\n

The new pontiff also denounced euthanasia and assisted suicide, calling it a \u201cculture of discarding\u201d the elderly. (Read the rest here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pundits who were pushing for a pope who would abandon 2,000 years of Catholic teaching and go chasing after the moral fashions of the world will probably be disappointed in Pope Francis I. The new Holy Father has a decades-long record of supporting the sanctity of human life, traditional marriage and the Gospel support of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,134,1195,43,44,1631,2669,48,1],"tags":[18,2775,2778,2776,2777,2774,1083,2773,558],"class_list":["post-10819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-clergy","category-euthansia","category-faith","category-family","category-holy-father-2","category-papal-conclave-2","category-pro-life","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-archbishop-bergoglio","tag-archidiocese-of-buenos-aires","tag-argentina","tag-buenos-aires","tag-cardinal-bergoglio","tag-mercy-killing","tag-pope-francis-i","tag-rape-and-abortion"],"yoast_head":"\nPope Francis I: Powerfully Pro Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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