{"id":92159,"date":"2016-04-11T03:36:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T07:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=92159"},"modified":"2016-04-11T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:00:59","slug":"bishop-defends-inviting-pro-abortion-sanders-vatican-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bishop-defends-inviting-pro-abortion-sanders-vatican-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop defends inviting pro-abortion Sanders to Vatican conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A Vatican official is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/275628-vatican-official-accuses-sanders-of-monumental-discourtesy\">defending<\/a> the decision to invite pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to speak at an upcoming conference on economic and environmental issues, as Pope Francis has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/pope-francis-condemns-abortion-euthanasia-same-sex-marriage-in-exhortation\">reiterated<\/a> the Catholic Church&#8217;s opposition to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No alleged right to one\u2019s own body can justify a decision to terminate that life,&#8221; the pope writes in his latest apostolic exhortation, &#8220;which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the &#8216;property&#8217; of another human being.&#8221; Francis also expresses support for adoption and opposition to euthanasia and population control.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, critics have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/meddling-in-us-politics-vatican-defends-invite-of-abortion-extremist-bernie\">suggested<\/a> that inviting Sanders to speak at the April 15 conference, hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on April 15, is inappropriate given the Vermont senator&#8217;s <a href=\"\/news\/closer-look-pro-abortion-radicalism-bernie-sanders\/\">support for abortion at any stage of pregnancy at taxpayer expense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2016\/04\/08\/bernie-sanders-announces-plan-for-speech-at-vatican\/\">called<\/a> it a &#8220;a source of real pride and excitement&#8221; that he has been given such a prestigious platform from which to discuss his views &#8220;on how we can create a world economy that is moral,&#8221; though he noted that &#8220;there are areas where we disagree on women\u2019s rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Marcelo S\u00e1nchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy, has confirmed that he is the one who extended the invitation, explaining that &#8220;because we have two presidents coming from Latin America, I thought it would be good to have an authoritative voice from North America.&#8221; He maintained that the invite &#8220;does not signify any support of the 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