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Related: About this forumIt’s Pope Francis Who Should Apologize on Abortion
Pope Francis has a limited-time offer just for women who have abortions: Confess, and you wont be excommunicated. Hurry! Only women who confess to a priest before November 20, 2016during the Year of Mercywill remain eligible to kneel and pray at the instruction of an all-male hierarchy that insists upon the subordination of women.
I am well aware of the pressure that has led [women who have abortions] to this decision, the Pope said. He suggested women believe they have no other option. Priests will have the discretion to absolve of the sin of abortion those who have procured it and who, with contrite heart, seek forgiveness for it.
It seems the Pope Francis Sex TalkTM brand is expanding. With his latest comments, Pope Francis has built a shiny new smokescreen to distract from the grave and immoral harms caused by the Vaticans opposition to abortion and womens equality.
This has practically become a formula: Cool Pope says something that sounds like he cares about the huge swaths of people routinely discriminated against by the biggest patriarchy in the world for being women, gay, or unwilling to have children. But the doctrine doesnt change, which means that nice comments dont make for nice policy. Lobbyists representing the Catholic Churchs leadership continue to wreak great destruction around the world, whether messing with the Affordable Care Act at home or insisting on denying condoms to people in AIDS-ravaged areas abroad. And billions of public dollars are funneled into Catholic institutions that insist they have a right to discriminate on the taxpayer dole.
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A woman who has had an abortion has done nothing wrong. She doesnt need to apologize, and she certainly doesnt need to apologize to a man representing an institution that denies her equality. (Remember when Pope Benedict compared the ordination of women to pedophilia? Pope Francis has enforced the same toxic nonsense about keeping women out of the priesthood; he just says things that make it sound nicer.) So, then, this isnt actually about reassuring women who have had abortions. This is about continuing to single them out and shame them.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/09/02/pope-francis-apologize-abortion/
I am well aware of the pressure that has led [women who have abortions] to this decision, the Pope said. He suggested women believe they have no other option. Priests will have the discretion to absolve of the sin of abortion those who have procured it and who, with contrite heart, seek forgiveness for it.
It seems the Pope Francis Sex TalkTM brand is expanding. With his latest comments, Pope Francis has built a shiny new smokescreen to distract from the grave and immoral harms caused by the Vaticans opposition to abortion and womens equality.
This has practically become a formula: Cool Pope says something that sounds like he cares about the huge swaths of people routinely discriminated against by the biggest patriarchy in the world for being women, gay, or unwilling to have children. But the doctrine doesnt change, which means that nice comments dont make for nice policy. Lobbyists representing the Catholic Churchs leadership continue to wreak great destruction around the world, whether messing with the Affordable Care Act at home or insisting on denying condoms to people in AIDS-ravaged areas abroad. And billions of public dollars are funneled into Catholic institutions that insist they have a right to discriminate on the taxpayer dole.
--snip--
A woman who has had an abortion has done nothing wrong. She doesnt need to apologize, and she certainly doesnt need to apologize to a man representing an institution that denies her equality. (Remember when Pope Benedict compared the ordination of women to pedophilia? Pope Francis has enforced the same toxic nonsense about keeping women out of the priesthood; he just says things that make it sound nicer.) So, then, this isnt actually about reassuring women who have had abortions. This is about continuing to single them out and shame them.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/09/02/pope-francis-apologize-abortion/
Fuck. The. Pope.
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It’s Pope Francis Who Should Apologize on Abortion (Original Post)
cleanhippie
Sep 2015
OP
If his popiness can 'forgive' women for a year, why can't he issue permanent 'forgiveness'?
cleanhippie
Sep 2015
#3
He's giving each priest 'discretion' to forgive if the priest feels like it. It is a year of greater
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#6
trotsky
(49,533 posts)1. "This is about continuing to single them out and shame them."
Exactly.
YAY POPE AWESOME!!!
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)3. If his popiness can 'forgive' women for a year, why can't he issue permanent 'forgiveness'?
Because this is just part of his
shiny new smokescreen to distract from the grave and immoral harms caused by the Vaticans opposition to abortion and womens equality
.
And the Laity continues to fill the pews and the coffers.
And the apologists will be along any minute now to deflect, defend, and try to seep it under the rug. Like it never even happened.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)6. He's giving each priest 'discretion' to forgive if the priest feels like it. It is a year of greater
power for priests over women who are in that faith. 'For one year, if you beg hard enough the man in charge of you might forgive you'.
It's nasty stuff.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)2. +1 Fuck The Pope
bvf
(6,604 posts)4. Exactly right.
It's just so sad that this mind-fuck will be welcomed in some quarters.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)5. A breath of fresh air!
A welcome change! We should embrace him!
Fuck that homophobic, misogynistic bigot and his homophobic, misogynistic church.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)7. Yes he should.
For centuries of oppression as well.
goldent
(1,582 posts)8. Moving forward