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[AlbertCat]

Pope to allow all priests to forgive abortion during Holy Year

Pope Francis will give all priests discretion during the Roman Catholic Church's upcoming Holy Year to formally forgive women who have had abortions, in the Argentine pontiff's latest move towards a more open and inclusive church.

In Church teaching, abortion is such a grave sin that those who procure or perform it incur an automatic excommunication. Usually only designated clergy and missionaries can formally forgive abortions.

But from Dec.8 to Nov. 26, during an extraordinary Holy Year or "Jubilee" on the theme of mercy announced by Pope Francis in March, all priests will be able to do so, he said in a letter published on Tuesday by the Vatican.

In the letter, Francis described the "existential and moral ordeal" faced by women who have terminated pregnancies and said he had "met so many women who bear in their heart the scar of this agonizing and painful decision".


http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/01/pope-to-allow-all-priests-to-forgive-abortion-during-holy-year/21229956/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D-1074134527

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It's only for a short time! From Dec.8 to Nov. 26! So get your abortion NOW!

As usual, the Wonder-Pope has made some useless gesture of minuscule altruism and everyone goes all gooey.

Any institution with such (undeserved) clout should wholeheartedly be supporting all forms of safe birth control. Not to do so is massively irresponsible.