内容摘要：“To get the reception I got means more than anything to me ... I have never felt so loved and cared for like I did today.”

“To get the reception I got means more than anything to me ... I have never felt so loved and cared for like I did today.”

Francis stressed he would not reject politicians who support abortion rights and Biden received Communion during a visit to Rome in 2021.San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who

in the archdiocese, described Leo as a “bridge builder.”“He will be a good force for unity in the church,” Cordileone told KPIX-TV in San Francisco. “Even with differences of opinion and different ideas of strategy and so forth, we can have unity in the church.”U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican and outspoken abortion opponent, took heart from a homily delivered early this year by Leo when he was Cardinal Robert Prevost. The passage cited by Smith: “God’s mercy calls us to protect every life, especially those society overlooks — the child yet to be born and the elderly nearing their journey’s end — because each bears Christ’s face.”

Smith depicted this remark as “underscoring the protection of the right to life as first among the many humanitarian responsibilities of the Church.”The interim president of Catholics for Choice, which supports abortion rights, acknowledged that Leo opposes abortion and said the group would send him letters from Catholics who disagree with that stance.

“We are praying that he will be a pope guided by a commitment to peace, justice, and inclusion,” said Chris Wimbush. “The future of our church depends on greater inclusion and nuance on reproductive health decisions like abortion, contraception and IVF.”

Francis, during his papacy, took major strides to give women more senior leadership positions in the church. But he upheld the ban on female priests and tamped down hopes that women could be ordained as deacons.with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A long-dormant Nevada law requiring parents or guardians to be notified before a minor can have an abortion will not take effect this week following a federal judge’s ruling.The 1985 law has never before been enforced in Nevada because of court rulings that found it was unconstitutional based on

, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion access a constitutional right for a half century.The ban on the Nevada’s law