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What changes when Pope Francis grants all priests the authority to forgive abortions

  • Written by Mathew Schmalz, Associate Professor of Religion, College of the Holy Cross

The Roman Catholic Church will allow priests all over the world to grant forgiveness for abortion. This announcement came from Pope Francis at the end of the Jubilee of Mercy – a holy year dedicated to forgiveness.

When the holy year concluded on Nov. 20, Pope Francis made permanent the permission that he had provisionally given priests to...

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