Recife, Brazil, Mar 23, 2009 / 12:20 pm
A group of priests from the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife in Brazil have published a letter revealing the details of the Church’s true response to the case of a 9 year-old girl pregnant with twins who underwent an abortion, which the press claimed was reduced to merely the imposition of excommunication.
The letter, written in response to an article in the L’Osservatore Romano, indicates, “All of us – beginning with the parish priest of Alagoinha (where the girl is from), undersigned – treated the pregnant girl and her family with all charity and tenderness.”