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Tuesday, September 1, 2015
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Pope lets priests pardon women for abortions
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePope Francis is granting priests discretion to absolve women who have had abortions if they seek forgiveness during the upcoming Holy Year, which begins December 8.
“One of the serious problems of our time is clearly the changed relationship with respect to life,” the pope writes in the English-language version of his letter. He describes the “existential and moral ordeal” of women who have chosen to terminate their pregnancies.
Francis says that women “who bear in their heart the scar of this agonizing and painful decision” deserve God’s forgiveness if they seek it.
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