You should be questioning the aspects of society that drive women to have abortions - rotten sex and relationships education (or none at all), major religions moralising about sex incessantly to young people, routinely emphasising the "sinful" aspects of it all, deliberately keeping young people ignorant and denying access to contraception and advice on contraception and social deprivation and inequality. That's where the true immorality lies, and the utter failure of the Church on those matters is why the Church is actually the champion, the perpetrator, of abortion. You have no more clue than I do as to how much the Vatican leaned on the bishops and clergy in Argentina (they certainly organised the lobbying of senators) but I note your comments about his merely expressing his views without coercion, etc. I suspect that you're being a little kind to him. And if you regard comparing young abortion-seeking women to Nazis with white gloves on, intent on maintaining the purity of the race, as "gentle expression of opposition," well I honestly don't know what you're thinking. One more time: the Pope is a head of state, but on this occasion he exempted himself from the protocols that excludes heads of state from interfering in the internal politics of a foreign country. You don't like it when Putin does that, do you?

You're in denial, Joe. Just as you are concerning Mother Teresa. Seems to me that you won't see evil because you turn your back when it's being exposed. The lady was a friend of Papa Doc and an admirer of Ceausescu, allowed hundreds of people to die in filth and squalor without medical attention and used the millions she received in donations to expand her convents rather than tending to the sick and needy. She told young women in Ireland that abortion was the biggest threat to world peace and she told the desperately poor not to fight but to celebrate their poverty. All these things are on record, are checkable and are undeniable. You keep her as your saint. She isn't one of mine.