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‘I always talk about the dignity of women,’ he said on his flight back to Rome. ‘An abortion is a homicide,’ he said, adding, ‘The doctors who carry this out are hitmen.’ He also spoke of the ‘responsibility to help the abused and to take care of them … and to punish the abusers.’
The Pope spent a moment in silent prayer before the tomb of King Baudouin before lauding his witness to the protection of life.
‘The good news that Jesus brought to the world must once again be proclaimed to all and allowed to shine forth in all its beauty,’ he said. The Pope also spoke of the suffering of abuse survivors, following his Friday meeting with 17 victims of clerical abuse.
On his first full day in Belgium on Sept. 27, Pope Francis celebrated a morning Mass in private before making his way to the castle.
ANALYSIS: Faith is flagging and euthanasia expanding in Belgium, once a bastion of Catholic culture.
Brussels district mayor Emir Kir ordered police Tuesday to block access to the conference venue, but was overruled by Belgium’s highest court.
The French National Consultative Ethics Committee has just opened the way to ‘active assistance in dying,’ and President Emmanuel Macron has already indicated his preference for the permissive Belgian legal model.
Before her death by euthanasia at age 64, neither her son nor any family member was consulted.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Critics of the recent text proposing a liturgy for blessings of same-sex couples note that the Belgian bishops are adopting an erroneous interpretation of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation ‘Amoris Laetitia.’
Antwerp’s Bishop Johan Bonny said the recent CDF document on same-sex relationships “undermines the credibility of both the ‘synodal path’ advocated by Pope Francis” and the “Year of Amoris Laetitia Family”
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