VATICAN CITY OPPOSES ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA AS USA Marks 250th Birthday

In a significant statement, Pope Francis’s successor, Pope Leo XIV, has expressed strong opposition to abortion and euthanasia in a televised address marking America’s quarter-millennium milestone. The historic statement echoed the stance of Pope Leo X’s predecessors in the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Francis is deceased and the current pope is Francis’s successor. Pope Leo XIV is not the actual successor to the present Pope Francis. However Pope Leo X succeeded Pope Pius II.