VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis denounced abortion on Saturday as the “white glove” equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families to accept the children that God gives them.
Francis spoke off-the-cuff to a meeting of an Italian family association. The Vatican didn’t immediately provide a transcript of his remarks, but the ANSA news agency and the SIR agency of the Italian bishops’ conference quoted him as denouncing the pre-natal tests that can result in parents choosing to terminate a pregnancy if the fetus is malformed or suffering other problems.
“Last century, the whole world was scandalized by what the Nazis did to purify the race. Today, we do the same thing but with white gloves,” the agencies quoted Francis as saying.
The pope urged families to accept children “as God gives them to us.”
Francis has repeated the strict anti-abortion stance of his predecessors and integrated it into his broader condemnation of what he calls today’s “throw-away culture.” He has frequently lamented how the sick, the poor, the elderly and the unborn are considered unworthy of protection and dignity by a society that prizes instead individual efficiency.
Francis has dedicated much of his pontificate to preaching about families, marriage and the problems that families today encounter. These issues he is expected to highlight during his August trip to Ireland where he’ll close out the Catholic Church’s big family rally.
Fuck you, Francis.
Of all the things you could talk about including children being ripped from their mothers’ arms on our borders,and the fact that Italy has been taken over by the real fascists, this is the bullshit you go with.
Everyone thinks you are some kind of exception to the usual Pope game - no you aren’t.
Papa, don’t preach. Or the few remaining Catholic women are going to desert the church.
You said it better.
This is a major disappointment considering he could have weighed in on the fact that Salvini ran down to Sicily to personally refuse the boat of refugees floating around the Mediterranean in god awful conditions while Europe argued. I’d really like to hear him say something about that goddamn fascist government in Italy.
Preach, sister! He is still an unmarried man running a medieval, authoritarian hierarchy.
And he also won’t sanction contraceptives.
You really have to love watching Ireland kick that church to the curb, finally.