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Pope Leo Tells Catholic Politicians: You Can’t be Catholic and Pro-Abortion, by Steven Ertelt – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Portrait of Pope Leo XIV. By ⁠Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work ...

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews, Aug 28, 2025

Washington, DC – Pope Leo XIV has issued a clarion call to Catholic politicians worldwide, urging them to align their actions with the Church’s teachings on the sanctity of life.

This new message follows on the heels of a recent pro-life message where the Pope emphasized the need to reject “voices of death” and embrace a culture of life.

Pope Leo firmly rejected the false notion of Catholic politicians saying they are “personally pro-life” but voting for abortion: “There is no division within the personality of a public figure: there is not on one side the politician, and on the other the Christian.”

“Rather, there is the politician who, under the gaze of God and of his conscience, lives out his commitments and his responsibilities in a Christian manner,” he said. …