Padre Pio's thought on abortion "the suicide of the human race"

One day, Father Pellegrino asked Padre Pio: “Father, this morning you denied absolution for a procured abortion for a lady. Why was he so rigorous with that poor wretch? "

Padre Pio replied: “The day when men, frightened by the economic boom, as they say, by physical damage or by economic sacrifices, will lose the horror of abortion, will be a terrible day for humanity. Because that is precisely the day when they should show that they are horrified. Abortion is not only murder but also suicide. And with those we see on the verge of committing both crimes with one shot, do we want to have the courage to show our faith? Do we want to recover them, yes or no? "

"Why suicide?" asked Father Pellegrino.

"Attacked by one of those unusual divine fury, compensated by a boundless hinterland of sweetness and kindness, Padre Pio replied:" Would you understand this suicide of the human race, if with the eye of reason, you saw "the beauty and joy" of the land populated by old people and depopulated by children: burned like a desert. If you reflect, then you would understand the double severity of abortion: with abortion the life of the parents is always mutilated too. I would like to sprinkle these parents with the ashes of their destroyed fetuses, to nail them to their responsibilities and to deny them the possibility of appealing to their own ignorance. The remains of a procured abortion should not be buried with false respect and false pity. It would be an abominable hypocrisy. Those ashes are slammed onto the bronze faces of the murdering parents.

My rigor, as it defends the arrival of children in the world, is always an act of faith and hope in our encounters with God on earth.