Pope Leo the 14th defends life and condemns abortion and the culture of death!
- Philip Creed
- May 10
- 2 min read
Media Release 9 May 2025
Right to Life encourages our political leaders, the medical profession and the media to uphold the teaching of Pope Leo XIV, in defending the inalienable right to life of every human being from conception to natural death.
Right to Life rejoices at the election of Peruvian-American Cardinal Robert Prevost by the College of Cardinals as the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church.
The election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the head of the Catholic Church should be a cause of jubilation. Pope Leo XIV has very strong pro-life views. The new Pope upholds the 2000-year-old constant teaching of the Catholic Church to uphold the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death.
As Cardinal Prevost, he declared recently in a homily “God’s mercy calls us to protect every life, especially those society overlooks—the child yet to be born and the elderly nearing their journey’s end—because each bears Christ’s face.”
The Pope enjoys a pre-eminent international status in providing spiritual and moral leadership in our world, a world which is increasingly under attack from secular humanist advocates of a culture of death, who are seeking to destroy the traditional family of exclusively one man and one woman, and who are promoting abortion and euthanasia as health services.
During his time in ministry within the Catholic Church, the new Pope Leo XIV, as Cardinal Prevost, condemned abortion and urged compassion and support for both unborn children as well as the elderly and disabled.
On Pastoral Care for the Elderly (Speech to Peruvian Bishops, 2020): “Our elderly are not to be discarded but cherished as bearers of wisdom and faith, deserving the same love and protection as the youngest among us.”
On the Throwaway Culture (Homily, Chiclayo, 2019): “We cannot build a just society if we discard the weakest—whether the child in the womb or the elderly in their frailty—for they are both gifts from God.”
On Mercy and Life (Homily, Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano, 2025): “God’s mercy calls us to protect every life, especially those society overlooks—the child yet to be born and the elderly nearing their journey’s end—because each bears Christ’s face.”
May Pope Leo’s election be great encouragement for those in our community who seek to be a voice for women, the unborn and the vulnerable in our society.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc.
