Pope: ‘World Was Scandalized Over What Nazis Were Doing…Today We Do the Same Thing, But With White Gloves’ By CNSNews.com Staff
Pope Francis said in what the Vatican describes as an “extemporaneous speech” delivered on June 16, 2018, to “The Delegation of the Forum of Family Associations” that abortionists who terminate the lives of deformed babies are like the Nazis.
“When I was a boy, the teacher was teaching us history and told us what the Spartans did when a baby was born with deformities: they carried it up the mountain and cast it down, to maintain ‘the purity of the race,’” said Pope Francis.
“And we were stunned: ‘But how, how could they do this, the poor babies!’ said the pope. “It was an atrocity.
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“Today we do the same thing,” Pope Francis said.
“Have you ever wondered why you do not see many dwarfs on the streets? Because the protocol of many doctors—many, not all—is to ask the question: ‘Will it have problems?’” the pope said.
“It pains me to say this. In the last century the entire world was scandalized over what the Nazis were doing to maintain the purity of the race,” the pope said. “Today we do the same thing, but with white gloves.”
Pope Francis: “Good morning everyone.
“I thought it would be a welcome address….But hearing Gianluigi speak, I saw that there was fire in [his words]; there was mysticism. It is a great thing. For some time now, I have not heard the family being spoken about with so much passion. And it takes courage to do so nowadays! It takes courage. And thank you for this! I had prepared a speech but after the warmth with which Gianluigi spoke, I find mine cold. I will consign it, so that he may distribute it later, and then I will publish it.
