{"id":32660,"date":"2013-09-07T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2013-09-07T07:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:40:19","slug":"pope-rings-pregnant-woman-to-tell-her-he-will-personally-baptise-her-child-after-she-wrote-to-him-saying-the-father-wanted-her-to-have-an-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=32660","title":{"rendered":"Pope rings pregnant woman to tell her he will PERSONALLY baptise her child after she wrote to him saying the father wanted her to have an abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pope<\/a>Pope Francis has telephoned a woman who wrote to him to tell her he will baptise her unborn after she refused to have an abortion.<\/p>\n

Shop worker Anna Romano, 35, was on holiday when she received the call from the Argentinian pope, who was elected in March this year.<\/p>\n

Anna, from Arezzo near Florence, central Italy, had written to Pope Francis earlier this summer to describe her turmoil at having discovered she was pregnant by a man, who unknown to her, was already married with a child and who demanded she terminate the pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Anna, from Arezzo near Florence, central Italy, had written to Pope Francis earlier this summer to describe her turmoil at having discovered she was pregnant by a man, who unknown to her, was already married with a child and who demanded she terminate the pregnancy.<\/p>\n

‘I told him that I would not have an abortion and told him to get out of my life.’<\/p>\n

Anna added how she was ‘in a desperate and anguished state’ and that she was writing to Pope Francis because she had ‘no-one else to turn to, after being left humiliated and betrayed’.<\/p>\n

‘He reassured me and said a child was a gift from God, a sign of Divine Providence and that I would never be left alone. He said that as Christians we should never be afraid.<\/p>\n

‘He told me I had been very brave and strong for my unborn child. I told him that I wanted to baptise the baby when it was born but I was afraid as I was divorced and a single mother but he said he would be my spiritual father and he would baptise my baby.<\/p>\n

‘I don’t know the sex of the baby but if the Pope does baptise it and it’s a boy I have no doubt of his name – Francis.’<\/p>\n

A Vatican spokesman said: ‘I know nothing of this telephone call but then again we knew nothing of the others. The Pope doesn’t tell us when he makes these calls – he just does them and then we find out about them later.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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