Pope Leo Responds to Backlash over France Assisted Dying Law

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POPE LEO XIV: "I would say that the understanding that the church has of a separation between church and politics or church and state, that I didn’t cross it. But being in a place, especially like Lourdes, where people are searching for something much deeper and understanding that their lives, even in the midst of sickness or disability or pain of different kinds, that their life has meaning. The church, because of Jesus himself, wants to be close those people and to affirm the values that life itself, I think, holds for all of us saw saw. I would say, if that’s politics, I did that, but it was not to get in in French politics. It was to teach what the church really believes.”