Whoopi Goldberg Says Finally There’s a Pope Who’s Read
The Bible And ‘Gets’ Abortion
by Dr. Susan Berry 27 Sep 2015
CNN’s Don Lemon asked Whoopi
Goldberg to weigh in on Pope Francis’ visit
to the United States and the Catholic Church’s teaching
on abortion.
Goldberg, a self-described “humanist,”
said, “This is the
first time since probably John XXIII that I have been reinterested and
reinvigorated, because this guy, you know, he read the book. He gets it.”
“This guy,” to the co-host of The View, is Pope
Francis, and “the book,” is The Bible.
“So if he says, listen, I don’t think you need to be
obsessed with gay people,” she continues, “I don’t think that’s what we need to
be thinking about. I think we need to be thinking about how do we make our
church better? How do we make our church more inclusive?”
According to Goldberg, Pope Francis said, “You know, quit
hurting women’s feelings about having gotten an abortion. I don’t want women to
get abortions but I understand why they do.”
Lemon further tested Goldberg’s theological knowledge of the
Church’s position on abortion.
“You said, there is nothing in The Bible about abortion,” he
said. “Someone would challenge you and say, ‘What about thou shall not kill?’”
“Well, if that’s the tactic we are going to take, we have to
be pissed at every war and all the things we do,” Goldberg responded.
“Now, no one goes into getting an abortion like it is a
party,” she continued. “You know what I mean? This is a hard decision for 97%
of the women in the world to make. So you shouldn’t be beating them up, because
they have had to make this terrible decision. It’s not your business that they
had to make the decision.”
Like many who are more often bashing the media image of the
Catholic Church while overlooking its actual teachings, Goldberg fails to
separate the Church’s condemnation of the act of abortion – the taking of a human
life – from the Church’s compassion for the woman in distress.
Interestingly, Lauren Duca, writing at the Huffington
Post in July, asserted that Goldberg “has devolved
“Sitting on her daytime throne at The View,” Duca
adds, “she churns out illogical and offensive comments with the force and
regularity of one of those ball machines for people who don’t have a friend to
play tennis with.”
Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life,
perhaps more charitably, observes to Breitbart News the lack of logic in
Goldberg’s thought process of proclaiming Pope Francis as the Church’s leader
who finally “gets it.”
“By implication, Goldberg contrasts Pope Francis to Pope
John Paul II -though she should not forget that Pope Francis canonized him,” he
says. “It was Pope John Paul II who wrote to women who have had abortions.”
Pavone quotes Saint Pope John Paul II:
I would now like to say a special word to women who have
had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have
influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a
painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have
healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give
in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what
happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves
over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to
give you his forgiveness and his peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. To
the same Father and to his mercy you can with sure hope entrust your child.
With the friendly and expert help and advice of other people, and as a result
of your own painful experience, you can be among the most eloquent defenders of
everyone’s right to life. Through your commitment to life, whether by accepting
the birth of other children or by welcoming and caring for those most in need
of someone to be close to them, you will become promoters of a new way of
looking at human life (The Gospel of Life, #99).
“These words not only convey the eagerness of the Church to
forgive, but also the understanding of the difficult and painful circumstances
that lead to an abortion,” Pavone continues. “That understanding is not
something new that Pope Francis brings to the Church for the first time, and
Pope Francis would be the first to say so.”
Pavone notes that women who have undergone an abortion
experience pain not just from the circumstances leading up to the abortion, but
also from the abortion itself.
“Those who advocate listening to and trying to understand
these women need to listen to them when they tell of the pain and devastation
abortion brings,” he urges.
The pastoral director of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, Pavone
observes that through this international program, both women who have had
abortions and other family members can say, “I Regret My Abortion.”
“They do not say that because the Church is hurting them,
but because abortion is hurting them,” he continues. “Many of them, in fact,
found the faith and the Church only after they got tired of the pain of
the abortion.”
Pavone’s leadership in the Catholic Church’s longstanding
ministry to women who have had abortions is also evident in Rachel’s Vineyard, the world’s largest
ministry for healing after abortion.
“Since the mid 1990’s, this ministry has brought countless
women, men, and families into a compassionate, confidential environment where
they could process their experience of abortion and bring the wounds to a
merciful Jesus, with the power of his Word and sacraments,” Pavone explains.
“Rachel’s Vineyard is officially sponsored by Catholic Dioceses around the
world, as are multiple other healing programs.”
“The Church doesn’t beat up on women who have had
abortions,” Pavone concludes. “That’s just an impression some have when they
watch Whoopi Goldberg on TV.”
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