This stupid add is insulting to me, because it seems to mock papal authority, simply because it isn't a "democracy;"  the pope is more like a monarch, than a president.   Even if they've quit wearing the tiara!  

Here is what Pope Francis said about abortion. I agree with the pope on this.

Pope Francis on Monday criticized abortion as evidence of a "throwaway culture" that wastes people as well as food, saying such a mentality is a threat to world peace.

Francis also urged better respect for migrants and denounced the persecution of Christians in Asia, Africa and the Middle East in his global survey of world crises delivered to diplomats accredited to the Holy See.

Saying hunger is a threat to world peace, he noted that not only food but human beings themselves are often discarded as unnecessary.

"We cannot be indifferent to those suffering from hunger, especially children, when we think of how much food is wasted every day in many parts of the world immersed in what I have often termed 'the throwaway culture,'" Francis said.

That culture, he said, also affects the unborn child.

"For example, it is frightful even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day," he said. Francis has generally limited his exhortations about abortion, saying church teaching is well known and that he prefers to speak less about the church's moralizing rules and more about its positive, welcoming message.

In remarks that were less diplomatic and more a reflection of his own priorities, Francis called for the elderly to be treated with respect that their wisdom warrants, and for children to be protected from exploitation, slavery and hunger.

He lamented those who have died trying to find better lives for themselves and their families, citing migrants from his own Latin America trying to reach the United States and Africans seeking to enter Europe.

He urged Italians in particular to "renew their praiseworthy commitment of solidarity" toward migrants, an allusion to the current debate in Italy to revise its restrictive immigration policies.

Each year, thousands attempt risky voyages across the Mediterranean in unseaworthy boats heading toward Italian shores, and hundreds die en route. Last year, Francis visited the island of Lampedusa, the destination of choice for smuggling operations where more than 360 people died in a single shipwreck on Oct. 3.

From Syria to Mali, North Korea to South Sudan, Francis called for the international community to do more to end conflicts and care for the most vulnerable.

Francis also decried the persecution of Christians that has forced many to flee the Middle East, resulted in bƖσσdshɛd in places like Nigeria and Mali and deprived Christians of their right to worship in parts of Asia.

"We must never cease to do good, even when it is difficult and demanding, and when we endure acts of intolerance if not genuine persecution," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/pope-says-abortion-evidence-39-throwaway-culture-39-120320575.html

Here is what Pope Francis said about abortion. I agree with the pope on this.

But you only tell us some of what Bergoglio has said on the subject.

In the very first sentence of that quote from Yahoo he equates abortion to throwing away FOOD ! ! !  (Soylent Green anyone?)  The man has no sense of proportion.

Marsha

what Pope Francis wants to say is that it is our fault 'victims' are killing their sons and daughters.

It has nothing to do with being sinful or personal accountability.

It amounts to the argument that because I am not paying for diapers and formula I am the killer.

Ha ha... I sat outside a clinic for 2 years watching couples come in with brand new SUVs and sports cars I could never hope to afford.

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I know a woman who has had seven abortions.  She and her husband have one adult daughter whom they support financially at age 48.  They live in a million dollar home, own two fifth wheeler campers, a speedboat, get new cars every year, Mercedes for her, Jaguar for him.  They go on cruises several times a year, have a cook, maid, lawn and garden service.  They are the wealthiest people I know--and they're both miserably discontent.
Conversely, the poorest couple with whom I'm personally acquainted, when I first met them, had just welcomed their 13th child.  The oldest was 16, and there was a set of girl twins.  They were living in an old millhouse that had last been used as a chicken coop.  They had a 50 gallon drum homemade cooking/heating stove, a discarded mattress and the floor for a bed, an old door on two sawhorses for a table, and five-gallon buckets for chairs.  They ate in shifts from discarded margarine tubs.  A month earlier, they'd been excommunicated from the Nebraska Amish and put out of the house owned by the deacon of their church district.  Amazingly, they were among the happiest people I've ever met.

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In the very first sentence of that quote from Yahoo he equates abortion to throwing away FOOD ! ! !  (Soylent Green anyone?)  The man has no sense of proportion.

Marsha

What he is saying is that the society has become so perverse in that it throws away children like it throws away food that it doesn't want to eat.  

Give it up. We know what he is saying, would you like a shovel so you can dig yourself into a deeper hole ?

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Quote from: Marlelar

In the very first sentence of that quote from Yahoo he equates abortion to throwing away FOOD ! ! !  (Soylent Green anyone?)  The man has no sense of proportion.

Marsha

What he is saying is that the society has become so perverse in that it throws away children like it throws away food that it doesn't want to eat.  

No he's not.  What he is saying is that the epidemic of abortion is due to that throwaway attitude of society.  As in, society starts throwing everything away.  They trow away diapers, they throw away towels, they throw away automobiles, and this leads to throwing away babies.  

He has it backwards.  In reality, the satanic sacrifice of these innocent babies has fueled satan's power, and created the throwaway society about which he speaks.

It should be noted that the pope is condemning this evil mentality and also he is condemning the evil that is abortion.

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Quote from: poche

Quote from: Marlelar

In the very first sentence of that quote from Yahoo he equates abortion to throwing away FOOD ! ! !  (Soylent Green anyone?)  The man has no sense of proportion.

Marsha

What he is saying is that the society has become so perverse in that it throws away children like it throws away food that it doesn't want to eat.  

No he's not.  What he is saying is that the epidemic of abortion is due to that throwaway attitude of society.  As in, society starts throwing everything away.  They trow away diapers, they throw away towels, they throw away automobiles, and this leads to throwing away babies.  

He has it backwards.  In reality, the satanic sacrifice of these innocent babies has fueled satan's power, and created the throwaway society about which he speaks.

It should be noted that the pope is condemning this evil mentality and also he is condemning the evil that is abortion.

The Pope is receiving an unexpected backlash for comments he made earlier in the year, he is trying to back pedal by clouding the issue and making his earlier statements seem ambiguous or out of context. I find his statement political and dishonest.