Belgian premier rips Pope’s ‘unacceptable’ stand on abortion
October 04, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has said that it was “absolutely unacceptable” for Pope Francis to condemn abortion while visiting his country. Pope Francis had said that abortion is murder.
De Croo summoned the papal nuncio to express his displeasure with the Pope’s statement. Addressing parliament, he said: “A foreign head of state making such a statement about the democratic decision-making process in our country is absolutely unacceptable.”
De Croo said that “the time when the church dictated the law in our country is long behind us.” He went on to repeat his criticism of the Church for its handling of the sex-abuse scandal, saying: “If there should be outrage about anything, it is towards those who, for example, allowed sexual harassment to take place, or towards those who failed to act when action should have been taken.”
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Posted by: feedback -
Oct. 05, 2024 8:37 AM ET USA
De Croo's hostile reaction to perennial Magisterium should be a wake up call to Francis and all shepherds of the Church: Stop making a mess by sending mixed messages about abortion, sodomy, female "ordinations"! Root out the evil from your own ranks! Stop preaching about "climate change" or "paradigm shifts"! As St. Paul said very clearly, "Proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching." [2 Tim. 4:2]
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Oct. 04, 2024 6:32 PM ET USA
The man has a good point about past and ongoing sexual perversions, abuse, and acquiescence among Catholic hierarchy. A few years ago, Pope Francis declared: "sins of the flesh are the lightest sins". Well, with an attitude like that, civil law might be the only restraint on "lightly sinning" clergy. And so it was. The dozens of bankrupt dioceses give good testimony to this fact. Turning to "blessings" for homosexual "couples", if sexual sins are the lightest, why not bless them? So they are.
