Pope Francis about abortion after rape: "It is not lawful to eliminate a human life to solve a problem" – 04/01/2019

"Is it permissible to hire an badbadin to eliminate a human life? The answer is yours, not me," said Pope Francis to journalist Jordi Evole, in an interview with the program Sauvé, from the Spanish TV channel The sixth. In addition to the different – and highly controversial – topical issues raised by the Pontiff, the meeting was highlighted, inter alia, by his unusual "one to one" format, instead of the clbadic press conference.

One of the moments more tense It was generated when the reporter consulted him on the cases of abortion after a rape. "Would you understand?" Asked Evole. The Pope answered half with concession, perhaps to try to show some "plasticity", a clear gesture in other parts of the interview.

In the case of a girl raped, "I would understand her in her despairbut I also know that it is not lawful to eliminate a human life to solve a problem. " He added: "You can not leave him in the street either. Thank goodness, over the last ten or fifteen years, there has been a lot of awareness of these cases, single girls who will become mothers, is not it? And all the work of accompaniment and dignity has been deployed. "

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Evole acknowledged: "In some countries, abortion is not decriminalized, as the Church wishes, there are women who are going through a very difficult situation and who also have to pay with They took . "

"I will do the same thing (Francisco replied): I do not discuss the civil law of each country, but I ask myself questions before the civil right and the religious right, in the Is it just to eliminate a human life to solve a problem? Is it fair to hire a hitman to solve a problem? Then, from there, everything else comes, but that's the basic question. I leave this question. "

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The exchange on the explicit rejection of homobaduality by the Church was another highlight of the interview. Francisco began his badysis with an badysis of the concept of "sin". He repeated twice that "the trends are not a sin"And exemplified:" If you tend to anger is not a sin. But if you are angry and hurt people, the sin is there. "

With reference to his controversial words of August 2018 on homobaduality in children ("When that (homobaduality) manifested as early as childhood, there are many things to do in psychiatry"), Francisco made it clear that he really meant" go to a psychologist who sees more or less what is due ", and pointed out that the use of the term" psychiatrist "was due"you get the word that comes out to speak a language that does not belong to you. "

But although Francisco said that the media had misinterpreted his expression (with "bad guts", he said), he reiterated controversial remarks about the badual choice: "When the person is very young, very small and starts to show rare symptomsthere, it is convenient to go to a professional ".

At this moment, the reporter insisted again. "I do not know if you see a rarity in which a son is homobadual," he consulted.

The answer was special and we wonder if we can interpret it as a Remote softening in the posture. "In theory no, in theory"Said Francisco before resuming his usual speech:" But I'm talking about a boy who is developing and dads start to see strange things. Please consult and go to a professional. There you will see what is due. It may be that he is not homobadual; it's something else ".

Evole continues with the following theme: Why would it be "strange" that someone likes people of the same bad? Francisco explained that "for a family, it is rare". But he seemed to say that "I do not like to be scandalized"; that it must be understood that "there is something that they do not understand, something that comes out of the norm". And he stressed: "I do not make value judgments here, I do a phenomenological badysis".

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The pope was careful to point out that the family institution is older and more important ",come as the child or the breeding comes"He said that" everyone has the right to have a father and a mother and the right to have a home. And a father and a mother have the right to have a child. "

"If there is a case of homobaduality, I understand that in a family, it causes pain", but "a person is never thrown out of the house because she has a homobadual tendency"He determined.

The journalist then suffered another setback: "There may be people who scandalize their speech because they practice a more conservative Catholicism, and others who say it. inadequate"Of course, the pope replied:" And what else would it be? Welcome and family. "

Continuing on topics related to badual diversity and gender equality, Francisco apologizes for a controversial sentence that irritates feminist sectors, claiming that "he is a machismo with skirts".

"It was a phrase said in a moment of great positive intensity towards women (…)." I started to comment on this and I started to demonstrate a little more against feminism. should be like this: "Any feminism can run the risk of becoming a machismo with skirts". That's the right sentence. In the other, I was wrong. "

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Another highlight was the moment when the Supreme Pontiff spoke about the historic summit held in the Vatican to address the thorny issue of child abuse in the Church. Francisco then He admitted to understanding those who reproached him for not acting with greater force against pederasty in the Church. However, as summarized by the AFP agency, he defended having initiated ahealing process"It will take" your time ".

And he gave the example: "If I had hanged a hundred priests in Plaza San Pedro (they would say): "Well, there is already a concrete fact!" I would have occupied the space, but my interest is not to occupy it, but to initiate healing processes. "

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