A Vatican Archbishop has condemned the recent referendum which has paved the way for the introduction of a radical abortion regime. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia who was handpicked by Pope Francis to lead the Pontifical Academy for Life was speaking to reporters in Rome, when he was asked for his reaction to the Irish abortion referendum result. He told the Sunday Independent, “The Church cannot be a party to the dirty work of others [abortion] and I don’t think that it is right that the law [in Ireland] now enables Pontius Pilate to wash his hands of the affair… I will never accept to be complicit in the cold-blooded aiding of the dirty work of death,” he replied, adding: “I was adamant that the whole [Catholic] world should go to Dublin to express their support and solidarity…”

The phrase ‘dirty work of death’ had earlier been used by Pope himself who said that when children are surrendered to deprivation, the poor to hunger, the persecuted to war, the elderly to abandonment, “we are not doing our own work but rather the dirty work of death.”

“And where does the ‘dirty work’ of death come from? It comes from sin,” the Pope said.