Pope Francis has declared that priests have the permanent right from now on to forgive abortions.
His remarks come at the end of the Catholic Church's jubilee year during which he had temporarily granted priests this power.
Catholics who have or perform an abortion can be immediately excommunicated from the Church.
"There
is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a
repentant heart seeking to be reconciled [with God], Mercy cannot become a mere parenthesis in the life of the church; it constitutes her very existence. May every priest, therefore, be a guide, support and comfort to penitents on this journey of special reconciliation."...Pope Francis wrote
in his letter.
A
Vatican spokesman confirmed that "there is no type of laxness here"
regarding the Church's position on the morality of abortion, but that
the power given to priests meant God's mercy could cover all sin.
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