In Rome last week, Pope Leo XIV reminded a bunch of conservative lawmakers that yes, Christian heritage includes defending life “from conception to natural death,” and that faith actually means something more than a bumper sticker slogan. It means putting words into action.
According to a report from Catholic Vote [1], an advocacy community that aims to inspire Catholics, the Pope told his audience, “to hold any high office within society comes with the responsibility to advance the common good.”
He made the remarks at the European Conservatives and Reformists Group of the European Parliament and his words about defending life “from conception” should be a wake-up call to all pro-abortion Christians and Catholics that they are on the wrong side of the Pope, the Bible and God.
Sorry, pro-abortion Christians and Catholics but the Church’s teaching hasn’t magically shifted to accommodate your disgusting views. Catholic doctrine clearly states [2] abortion is a grave moral evil – plain and simple.
That leaves almost 60% of Catholics with a crowded confessional because, according to Pew Research Center surveys [3], about 59% of Catholics in the United States say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. That is appalling.
The bottom line: if you call yourself Catholic and vote to kill unborn babies, you’re not exactly in step with Church teaching – or God’s words.
And if you don’t want to take the Pope’s word for it, maybe study up on the Bible sometime…
Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”
Psalm 139:13–16
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb… all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Luke 1:41–44
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb…”
Isaiah 49:1
“Before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.”
And then there’s the main one:
Exodus 20:13
“You shall not murder.”