Pope tells priests to pardon women who have abortions (Father of Novus Ordo Catholics is overly lenient. Where’s the penance due to this crime? 3 Hail Mary’s?)

by Joseph Saraceno

antichristiVatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis on Tuesday called on priests to pardon women who have abortions, and the doctors who perform them, during the upcoming Jubilee year — overruling hardline traditionalists within the Catholic Church.

“I have decided, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, to concede to all priests for the Jubilee Year the discretion to absolve of the sin of abortion those who have procured it and who, with contrite heart, seek forgiveness for it,” he said MORE