When Pope Francis spoke in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 10, 2018, he was not talking about gangsters when he spoke about a “hit man.” He was talking about abortion.
The pope started by citing the Fifth Commandment: “You shall not kill.”
“One could say that all the evil carried out in the world can be summed up in this: contempt for life,” he said.
“A contradictory approach even permits the termination of human life in the maternal womb, in the name of safeguarding other rights,” he said. “But how can an action that ends an innocent and defenseless life in its blossoming stage be therapeutic, civilized, or simply human?”
“Is it right to hire a hit man in order to solve a problem? One cannot,” he said. “It is not right to ‘do away with’ a human being, however small, in order to solve a problem.
“It is like hiring a hit man to solve a…
