Pope Francis celebrated families on Saturday and urged them to shun 바카라selfish바카라 decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the US Supreme Court ended constitutional protection for abortion.
Francis didn't refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion in his homily. But he used the buzzwords he has throughout his papacy about the need to defend families and to condemn a 바카라culture of waste바카라 that he believes is behind the societal acceptance of abortion.
바카라Let us not allow the family to be poisoned by the toxins of selfishness, individualism, today's culture of indifference and waste, and as a result lose its very DNA, which is the spirit of welcoming and service,바카라 he said.
The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to 바카라thwart the desire to bring new lives in the world바카라, called for them not to cling to selfish desires.
바카라You have been asked to not have other priorities, not to look back' to miss your former life, your former freedom, with its deceptive illusions,바카라 he said.
Francis has strongly upheld church teaching opposing abortion, equating it to 바카라hiring a hitman to solve a problem.
At the same time, he has expressed sympathy for women who had abortions and made it easier for them to be absolved of the sin of undergoing the procedure.
The Catholic Church holds that life begins at conception and must be protected and defended until natural death.
Francis delivered his homily in a packed St. Peter's Square at the end of the World Meeting of Families, a four-day conference held every few years aimed at helping church workers provide better pastoral care for families, especially those in difficulty.
The head of the Vatican's laity office, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, celebrated the closing Mass before tens of thousands of people given Francis has a bad knee that makes it difficult for him to stand for long periods of time.
The pope instead sat to the side of the altar and delivered the homily seated, though he was able to stand up easily for the reading of the Gospel and other moments with the help of a cane.
The Vatican welcomed Friday's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that provided constitutional protections for abortion in the US.
The move opens the doors for individual states to ban or restrict abortion access, with bans now expected in about half the US states.
The Holy See's main bioethics body, the Pontifical Academy for Life, said it 바카라challenges the whole world바카라 to reopen debate about the need to protect life. Abortion is legal in Italy and most of Europe.
In an editorial Saturday entitled 바카라For Life, Always바카라, the Vatican's editorial director, Andrea Tornielli, called for that debate to move away from polarised ideology to a dialogue that takes into account concerns about maternal mortality rates and helping women, especially poor ones, with paid parental leave and other assistance when they bring children into the world .
바카라Being for life, always, also means defending it against the threat of firearms, which unfortunately have become a leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the US,바카라 Tornielli wrote.
Farrell, in his closing remarks at the end of the Mass, thanked Francis for his many initiatives in favour of families, citing in particular his teaching on the value of grandparents and his 바카라many pronouncements in defence of life바카라.
