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The Pope condemns abortion: 'Biden question his conscience'

2022-07-12T14:14:49.684Z


Francesco: 'Resignation? I don't intend to, but in case of renounce I would stay in Rome, I would not go to Argentina or the Vatican. And on the war in Ukraine he says: 'We are experiencing a broken Third World War' (ANSA)


Pope Francis

is very sharp in his

condemnation of abortion

and affirms that "scientific data" shows that "a month after conception, the DNA of the fetus is already there and the organs are aligned. There is human life. It is right to eliminate a human life? ", asks the

Pontiff

.

Regarding the favorable position of the president of the United States,

Joe Biden

, a Catholic, to the protection of the right to abortion, Francis stresses that

he "leaves it" to his "conscience":

"Speak to your pastor about this inconsistency", the

Pope

affirms . in an interview with

TelevisaUnivision

.

THE WORDS OF THE PONTIFF ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RESIGNING 

"

I'm not going to resign

.

Not at the moment

."

Pope Francis says this in the interview in Spanish with Mexican journalists María Antonieta Collins and Valentina Alazraki, broadcast in full by TelevisaUnivision.

The Pope acknowledges that he always believed that his time in the Vatican would be short, "but I didn't realize it and it's been 9 years", says with irony Bergoglio, who has made the search for "naturalness" and simplicity one of the signs of his pontificate.

Of course, he confesses that "his

knee hurts

a little ", that he feels a little "diminished" even though he can now walk, but that "

never

", in any case,

has it occurred to him to resign,

.

However, "if I see that I can't, I am either hurt or an obstacle" I am waiting for "help" to make the decision to withdraw, she says.

'GREAT SYMPATHY FOR THE GOODNESS OF BENEDICT XVI'

Pope Francis and Pope Benedict (archive photo)

In the interview with TelevisaUnivision,

Pope Francis

expresses his "great sympathy" for the "goodness" of

Pope Benedict XVI

, who resigned in 2013 and leads a life, he says, of retirement, reading, studying and writing at the age of 95 .

However, underlined that, on the day of his eventual retirement, he prefers to be considered a simple "

bishop emeritus of Rome

" rather than Pope emeritus and devote his hours to the confession of the faithful and to the practice of charity and to visit the sick in an Italian parish.

Francis then explains that he would neither live in the

Vatican

nor return to his native

Argentina

if and when he ever retired.

Instead, he would like to find a church in Rome where he can continue to confess.

"If I survive after discharge, I would like to do something like this: confess and go see the sick," she explained.

'

WE LIVE THE THIRD WORLD WAR IN PIECES

'

Pope Francis: 'God show the way to end this crazy war'

Pope Francis warns of the risk that the world is heading towards a

third world war

and says that "savage wars of destruction" such as the one that afflicts

Ukraine

have been going on for years.

"For years we have lived the third world war in pieces, in chapters, with wars everywhere", even if the war in Ukraine "touches us more closely", says the Pope, also referring to the tragedy in

Yemen

and

Syria

, to the truncated lives of 30,000 soldiers, boys who died in the landing on the beaches of Normandy, to the armed conflicts "that are imposed on us", which show that "We have lost consciousness of the war".

And "

humanity continues to manufacture weapons

", he complains, adding firmly that war" enslaves ", dehumanizes, and that, according to the Catholic Catechism," the use and possession of nuclear weapons is immoral and one cannot play with death by hand ".

Regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Francis explains that he prefers to talk about the victims rather than the executioners, "the country that is attacked" and the "wild things we read and that we already know who is doing them".

He is in favor of "leaving the door open to the conscience of the person" and smiles when asked for comments on the fact that he is accused of being "pro-Russian": "I laugh. The ability of people to express their opinion has no limits" and " many of the views are built on the wave of the latest Twitter, "he said.

Source: ansa

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