Pope Francis announces that the sin of abortion can be forgiven as of 2016

For believing women, making the decision to abort a baby they didn't want was very hard for two reasons: the decision itself, to undergo a relatively brief intervention but with an outcome that many remember all their lives (for good and for bad) and the one related to the position of the church, which meant the automatic excommunication.

There was no possible forgiveness for the decision to abort a baby, unless you came to the bishop and showed him your repentance. This meant that many women, unable to confess with a bishop, or not knowing that they should do so, were, as I say, expelled directly from the Christian faith.

Until shortly, well Pope Francis has announced that as of 2016 the sin of abortion can be forgiven in the churches, through the priests, in its goal of renewing the Church and making it more open, closer and more inclusive.

The internal struggle of many women

Apparently, he has decided so to understand the circumstances of many women who saw themselves at a crossroads, between a rock and a hard place, in an internal struggle between their desires as women and their beliefs, suffering for an act that they committed and knowing that they are no longer part of the church thus.

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In the words of the Pope himself:

I have met many women who keep in their hearts the fear of this agonizing and painful decision.

To give them peace, to calm that anguish, he has decided that not only bishops can forgive the sin of abortion, but also the priests, the priests of the nearest church.

Everyone who draws their own conclusions, although That's perfect for me: For a long time abortion was considered a crime and until now sin. Just as it would be nice to put a woman in jail, behind bars, for abortion, it sounds absurd to excommunicate her for doing something like that. If it's your beliefs, if it's your faith, how will you be judged so harshly when it's a sin that actually God does forgive, through the bishops?