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The Pope's "definiton of sin" in relation to abortion hasn't evolved at all. Could you give me a quote that shows it has? He asks the women to turn away from this sin and confess it with real contrition. He instructs the priest in the Confessional to make sure she realizes the gravity of this sin as well as the mercy God shows to the repentant sinner.

Is this something that departs from what the Catholic Church has said since the 1st century AD?

And this is what he wrote about "population" in Laudato Si:

50. Instead of resolving the problems of the poor and thinking of how the world can be different, some can only propose a reduction in the birth rate. At times, developing countries face forms of international pressure which make economic assistance contingent on certain policies of “reproductive health”. Yet “while it is true that an unequal distribution of the population and of available resources creates obstacles to development and a sustainable use of the environment, it must nonetheless be recognized that demographic growth is fully compatible with an integral and shared development”.[28]

And about "abortion":

"120. Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion. How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties? “If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of the new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away”.[97]

Are these statements offensive?

I, too, am disturbed by the network of "allies" the Pope surrounds himself with, who would vehemently disagree with the above Catholic principles.

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