Pope Francis has defended the appointment of an atheist supporter of abortion to the Pontifical Academy for Life.
During an in-flight press conference on the return to Rome from Bahrain, the Holy Father said Prof Mariana Mazzucato would bring “a little more humanity” to the workings of an institution founded in 1994 to engage in the fields of biomedicine and law as they pertain to “the promotion and defence of life”.
The Pope said: “I have seen that in the Vatican, every time a woman comes in to do work in the Vatican things get better.”
