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Wrapping up Belgium visit, Pope doubles down on his views and calls abortion doctors 'hitmen'

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Pope Francis revisits thorny topics of his trip to Belgium during his in-flight press conference coming home.

He praised Belgium ’s late King Baudouin as a “saint” for having abdicated for a day in 1990 rather than sign legislation legalizing abortion.

“Doctors who do this are allow me the word hitmen. They are hitmen,” Francis said.

Louvain students staged a reading of an articulated critique of Francis ' landmark environmental encyclical.

They called for a “paradigm shift” in the way the church views women.

Francis , an 87-year-old Argentine Jesuit , said he liked what they said.

But he repeated his frequent refrain about women being the “fertile” nurturers who complement men.

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75

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78

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informal

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English

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50

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