Vatican City, Sep 9, 2013 / 11:02 am
Pope Francis made a personal phone call to a young Italian woman facing a difficult pregnancy, applauding her bravery in choosing life for her child and offering to baptize the baby.
Anna Romero, a 35-year-old woman from central Italy, was on vacation when she received a phone call from the Pope. She had written the pontiff earlier this summer, describing her anguish at discovering that she had become pregnant by a man who – unknown to her at the time – was already married.
"In June I discovered I was pregnant through him and when I told him instead of being happy he told me he was already married, already had a child and to have an abortion," Romero said, according to the Daily Mail.
"I told him that I would not have an abortion and told him to get out of my life."