he lectured catholic object city tricks budget cuts evils of abortion saying every presentingty aborted bears the face of jesus. mercy was this a flip-flop or does pope francis truly want to stay away from issues like abortion >> there is no flip-flop. pope francis is committed to define the mission of the church the salvation of jesus and letting people know about this as well as committed to the moral teachings of the church >> i think pope francis wants to have his cake and eat it too and time will tell whether he can getaway with it >> i do believe his intent in the comments was to say there are many issues that we have to address in the catholic church. abortion is a sin and he did not say it wasn't. >> yeah, i don't think this is a flip-flop. i think he was trying to contextualize the abortion debate in the larger conversation of all of the church's teachings >> i'm thrilled to save we have a catholic panel today which was wonderful. i am not a catholic. huge fan of this pope or at least i was last thursday and friday i'm thinking what is he doing? not that he cares whether i am a