Pope indicates he'll be firm on abortion, euthanasia

From the AP and the Post Dispatch:

ROME - Pope Benedict XVI indicated Saturday that he will stick to Pope John Paul II's unwavering stands against abortion and euthanasia, saying pontiffs must resist attempts to "water down" Roman Catholic teaching.

Benedict outlined his vision of his papacy in a homily during a ceremony in which he took his place on a marble-and-mosaic throne in the ancient Roman basilica of St. John in Lateran. The ceremony is the last to formally mark Benedict's assumption of the papacy.

The pope "must not proclaim his own ideas, but ever link himself and the church to obedience to the word of God, when faced with all attempts of adaptation or of watering down, as with all opportunism," Benedict said.

Also in the article is a story indictaing that the Polish priest, previously accused of being a spy for Poland's communist government, has been cleared.

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