Pope Francis has doubled down on his traditional views on abortion and women during his in-flight press conference coming home from Belgium.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up a troubled visit to Belgium on Sunday by doubling down on his traditional views on women and abortion and demanding that Catholic bishops stop covering up for predator priests — a scandal that has devastated the church’s credibility around the globe.

Francis revisited the key thorny topics of his trip to Belgium during his in-flight press conference coming home, praising Belgium’s late King Baudouin as a “saint” for having abdicated for a day in 1990 rather than sign legislation legalizing abortion.

  • NotAnonymousAtAllEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Francis used his only Mass in Belgium to publicly demand that priests who abuse young people be punished, and that the church hierarchy stop covering up their crimes.

    “Someone in that organization really needs to do something about this problem” says the literal leader of that same organization, who has unlimited authoritarian rule over everything that happens there.

    • BlaubarschmannEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      He demands it, but doesn’t enforce it. So only empty words then. And he should keep his mouth shut about this anti-abortion crap