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Posted on 12/24/2025 9:00:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Pope Leo stated Dec. 23 that he had joined Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Cupich in pleading with Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker not to sign a controversial assisted suicide bill into law and was “very disappointed” when Pritzker ignored their intervention and signed the bill.
“I spoke very explicitly with Governor Pritzker about that,” the Holy Father said outside Castel Gandolfo in response to EWTN Vatican correspondent Rudolf Gehrig’s question about the bill. Pritzker visited the Vatican and had an audience with the Pope in November.
“At that time, the bill was already on his desk,” the Holy Father said Tuesday. “I’m sure also with Cardinal Cupich [spoke to Pritzker]. We were very clear about the necessity to respect the sacredness of life from the very beginning to the very end.”
Nonetheless, Pritzker went ahead with the bill. “I’m very disappointed about that,” the Holy Father said.
“I would invite all people, especially in these Christmas feast days, to reflect upon the nature of human life, the goodness of human life,” he added. “God became became human like us to show us what it means really to live human life. And I hope and pray that the respect for life would once again grow in all moments of human existence, from conception until natural death.”
As CatholicVote previously reported, Pritzker signed the law Dec. 12, “allowing terminally ill patients to take life-ending medication prescribed by a doctor, making Illinois the first state in the Midwest to legalize medical aid in dying.”
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Hard for a CATHOLOC POPE to change a DEMOCRAT JEW’S mind.
Quite an upstanding guy that Leo. /s
He’s not called Mao Tse Chicago Fatboy for nothing.
while Pitzker is culturally a Jew, he is going against Jewish doctrine on this.Jews value life highly.suicide is a violation of Jewish law.
Suicide is what the state says it is at the time. It can change however.
There is still free will with this. A suicide bill doesn’t force anyone to die, unlike abortion. Any mention of that in your pleading with Pritzker, Leo?
Maybe our naive Pope, will wake up and stop welcoming all these pro abortion Rats to the Vatican, and realize how the RATS are the devils pawns.
So is ABORTION, but it doesn’t stop ANY of my Jewish in laws...they ALL SUPPORT IT!! PLUS SUICIDE!
Leo should try a box of Krispy Kremes.
A Jewish slob of Ukrainian descent who has a long political track record aligned with Satan himself never should have been given an audience with the pope in the first place.
Same evil at work as witch Hochul in New York, the Marxist reprobates want the mechanisms of dealing out death to be codified into the laws of the land.
They will later on when usurping more power and having more tentacles inserted, then be able to choose who lives and who dies. This is merely laying the groundwork for that future death world.
It is a necessary requirement of the anti-Christ ‘Beast System’ attempting to rise up for the end of the age.
And rise up it will.
I would have some (but not much) respect for Pritzker and Hochul had they signed the bill and then with the help of someone committed suicide in front of the cameras.
The “free will” with this will not last long. You can be sure that the next domino will fall when medical professionals who don’t sign onto this Nazi sh!t will lose their state licenses to practice in Illinois. Around the same time, you’ll have medical schools adopting these Nazi standards into their curricula. You won’t even be able to get into medical school if you are an “objector.”
The only time Democrats observe any religious guidance is when they can use it as a club against their opponents. They are truly godless.
well work on the equally stubborn kathy hochul-
The thing to remember about Leftists is:
It is pathetic that ANY Church would deal with anyone in the Democrat Party (or any Leftist) as if they were ostensibly even a Christian. I know Pritzger is supposedly Jewish, though I would guess he is so secular as to not even have any dealing with the Jewish faith except in a political environment where it might theoretically bring him votes or power.
--- --- Good for Leo for speaking out. This alone makes him to the right of the anti-pope Bergoglio.
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