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(19,429 posts) Sun Jan 8, 2017, 08:43 AM Jan 2017

Pope tells women to feel free to breastfeed in church [View all]

VATICAN CITY (AFP) -
Pope Francis encouraged women attending a ceremony in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday to feel free to breastfeed their children in the church.

"The ceremony is a little long, someone's crying because he's hungry. That's the way it is," the pontiff said.

"You mothers, go ahead and breastfeed, without fear. Just like the Virgin Mary nursed Jesus," he told worshippers attending an annual ceremony commemorating the baptism of Jesus.

http://www.france24.com/en/20170108-pope-tells-women-feel-free-breastfeed-church

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Pope tells women to feel free to breastfeed in church [View all] FarCenter Jan 2017 OP

If he's stop his abortion bullshit, I really like this pope. Feeling the Bern Jan 2017 #1

Is it his abortion bullshit or the Church's abortion bullshit? HoneyBadger Jan 2017 #2

With this pope, more probably the Church, Volaris Jan 2017 #3

He took what for a Catholic Pope was a major step in the right direction. pnwmom Jan 2017 #11

Wow lillypaddle Jan 2017 #4

I did in 1990...not in a Catholic Church...but didn't need permission from the Pope. mnhtnbb Jan 2017 #5

One mistake is claiming breastfeeding requires a breast to be exposed. Ilsa Jan 2017 #6

Well most Catholic churches are full of paintings and statues of a breastfeeding woman. tanyev Jan 2017 #7

Can't stop laughing! tavernier Jan 2017 #8

It is bizarro. SHRED Jan 2017 #9

Our kids were breastfed in church, work, and everywhere else. hunter Jan 2017 #10