Posted on 04/11/2016 11:31:58 AM PDT by marshmallow
A Vatican official is defending the decision to invite pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to speak at an upcoming conference on economic and environmental issues, as Pope Francis has reiterated the Catholic Churchs opposition to abortion.
No alleged right to ones own body can justify a decision to terminate that life, the pope writes in his latest apostolic exhortation, which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the property of another human being. Francis also expresses support for adoption and opposition to euthanasia and population control.
However, critics have suggested that inviting Sanders to speak at the April 15 conference, hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on April 15, is inappropriate given the Vermont senators support for abortion at any stage of pregnancy at taxpayer expense.
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Kind of like Notre Dame inviting Obama to receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree for giving the commencement address. Ignoring the facts that Obama hates Catholics and everything they stand for, and that he knows ZERO about constitutional law.
This pope needs to be fired.
No alleged right to ones own body can justify a decision to terminate that life,
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