Monday, March 16, 2009

Vatican 'damaged' by row over 9-year-old rape victim...

A senior archbishop has said the Vatican was wrong to condemn two doctors who carried out an abortion on a nine-year-old girl who fell pregnant after being raped.

He admitted the Church's "credibility" had been hurt by the bitter row over the termination in Brazil, a month after the rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denying British Catholic bishop raised questions about the Pope's judgment.

In the second public relations controversy to hit the Catholic Church in weeks, the Pope's advisers appeared to be at loggerheads over the excommunication of medics who performed an abortion on Brazilian girl made pregnant with twins by her stepfather. More...

See also:

  1. Church condemns nine-year-old's abortion...
  2. Ex-nun accuses an Indian convent of torture and sexual harassment...
  3. Priest: No Communion for Obama voters!!! WTF!

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