The Pope who said Abortion is NOT Murder: Secrets of the Catholic Church - Paperback

by John McCloskey (Author)

"He is not a murderer who brings about abortion before the soul is in the body" said Roman Catholic canon law for over eight hundred years, until 1917 when Pope Benedict XV approved a revised code of canon law. What began as an investigation into why one pope said an abortion was not murder led to the long history of popes who said so, and to an amazing consequence of that history which persists even today.