PAPAL LETTER TO GERMAN BISHOPS ON ABORTION
ROME, June 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Clearing up misleading news stories by the German media, the Vatican released the letter Pope John Paul II wrote earlier this month to the bishops of Germany regarding abortion counselling. Contrary to earlier reports, Zenit News reveals that the Pope did not ban the counselling practice but did insist that the certificates given by Catholic counselling must not be used to obtain “decriminalized abortions.” Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz, chairman of the German Bishops Conference, announced at a Bonn news conference today that the Church’s role in the counselling would continue but the certificates would […]
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