Following Friday's ruling, the Pontifial Academy for Life also joined the USCCB statement, saying the issue of abortion cannot remain "confined to the exercise of individual rights but instead is a matter of broad social significance."
“After 50 years, it is important to reopen a non-ideological debate on the place that the protection of life has in a civil society to ask ourselves what kind of coexistence and society we want to build.”
The Pontifical Academy for Life said governments should enact policies that "favor life without falling into a priori ideological positions".
I suspected we'd get an oblique response from Rome. A real pope would be moved to tears of joy on this day, and would lead Catholics around the world in a prayer of profound thanks. Instead, we get a "nuanced" memo from one of the church's many sub-bureaucracies.
Bergiglio’s statement should not end up being this bloodless.
Neither should the Pope’s.
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