Vatican double-talk on the unborn
SIR – In your leading article of February 10, you ask whether those unhappy with many of the words and deeds of Pope Francis are a recognisable group, and you cite vaticanista Marco Politi who believes they represent – as you gloss it – “a pious, clerical-led reaction to Francis’s far-reaching reforms”.
You then list a number of reasons for unhappiness with the Pope’s programme, yet fail to mention one of the largest groups whose members are almost unanimously apprehensive as to Francis’s approach to their concerns. I refer to dedicated pro-life activists in many countries: members of organisations certainly not normally “clerical-led” (though good bishops and priests will strongly support them), but who notice that while Pope Francis repeats that he is opposed to abortion and other anti-life procedures, he also suggests that the lives of millions of the unborn should be put on the backburner and condones the appearance of some of the world’s most energetic abortion supporters at Vatican events. Such are Jeffrey Sachs – right-hand man of George Soros, the billionaire notoriously spending his wealth on undermining Church teaching – and Dr Paul Ehrlich, who advocates abortion (not even excluding forced abortion and sex-selective abortion) on a massive scale to defuse a hypothesised “population bomb”.
