Pontiff has been adamant bishops should avoid acting in a way ‘that is not pastoral’ and decline to ‘enter the political sphere’
Pope Francis in conversation with Italian Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi during a pastoral visit in Trieste on July 7th. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/Getty Imageslegislation was wrong to say he was acting in accordance with the words of Catholic Primate Archbishop Eamon Martin in 2013.
Speaking in August 2013, after the Dáil passed the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, which allowed abortion where the mother’s life was threatened, including by suicide, Archbishop Eamon Martin said politicians who supported it would not be excommunicated or denied communion and that he had never refused communion to anyone.
On a flight to Rome after he visited Slovakia in September of that year, he said “if we look at the history of the church, we can see that every time the bishops did not act like shepherds when dealing with a problem, they aligned themselves with political life, on political problems”.
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