But no change in the church's teaching that contraception and abortion are immoral and not to be countenanced.
Couldn't get more old school, for a Catholic cleric, if you tried.
Also, a Catholic pope had this to say about the "ideological colonization" of Africa.
But he firmly upheld church teaching banning contraception and said no outside institution should impose its views on regulating family size, blasting what he called the “ideological colonisation” of the developing world.
African bishops, in particular, have long complained about how progressive, western ideas about birth control and gay rights are increasingly being imposed on the developing world by groups, institutions or individual nations, often as a condition for development aid.
“Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised,” Francis said.
He wasn't even smiling.
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