Yahoo – AFP,
18 February 2016
Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis insisted Thursday that abortion was always a crime but hinted that the Church could exceptionally relax its ban on contraception for women at risk of contracting the Zika virus.
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A pregnant
woman holds a mosquito net in Cali on February 10, 2016 after the
Colombian
Health Ministry began delivering mosquito nets free to prevent
infection by Zika
virus (AFP Photo/Luis Robayo)
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Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis insisted Thursday that abortion was always a crime but hinted that the Church could exceptionally relax its ban on contraception for women at risk of contracting the Zika virus.
"Abortion
is not a lesser evil. It is a crime," Francis said in response to a
question about how best to combat the outbreak across Latin America of a virus
linked to birth defects.
But he
added: "Avoiding a pregnancy is not an absolute evil."
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Pope
Francis speaks to journalists aboard
the flight from Mexico to Italy, on
February
18, 2016 (AFP Photo/Alessandro Di Meo)
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"We
must not confuse the evil consisting of avoiding a pregnancy with
abortion," Francis said. "Abortion is not a theological problem. It
is a human problem, medical. One person is killed to save another. It is evil
in itself, it is not a religious evil, it is a human evil.
"On
the contrary, avoiding a pregnancy and, in the cases of Paul VI which I have
cited, it was clear.
"I
would also urge doctors to do everything they can to develop a vaccine."
The United
Nations and aid organisations have urged countries hit by the virus to ensure
women have access to contraception to reduce the risk of infection and the
right to abortion should they decide to terminate a pregnancy.
Many Latin
American countries outlaw abortion or allow it only if the mother's life is in
danger.
After
initially saying little about the outbreak, Catholic leaders in the region have
recently begun to assert the Church's opposition to what it terms
"artificial" birth control and abortion.
Instead of
using condoms or the contraceptive pill, Church officials have been
recommending abstinence or what they term natural family planning -- scheduling
sexual relations for the least fertile periods of a woman's menstrual cycle.
Francis was
also questioned about the recent revelation that another of his predecessors,
John-Paul II, had an "intense" 30-year friendship with a married
woman.
The current
pope said he had been aware of his Polish predecessor's friendship with
philosopher and writer Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.
"A man
lacks something if he does not know how to have a good rapport with a
woman," he said, adding for good measure that, "sexists are
sick".
Every
priest should seek out the feelings of women on different subjects, he said.
"I
like to receive advice from women. A friendship with a woman is not a sin - a
love affair, on the contrary, is."
Although he
has given no indication of a change in current Church teaching on the question,
Francis has said that the requirement of celibacy for Catholic priests is not
set in stone and could be reviewed.
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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“… 3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…
Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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