Pope Baptizes 32 Children; Allows Breast Feeding in Sistine Chapel

NEWSMAX: Pope Francis baptized 32 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday and told their mothers, including one who was married in a civil service rather than in church, to have no qualms about breast feeding them there.

Unlike his predecessors, who usually delivered long and theology-laden homilies at the yearly baptism event, the Pope offered a brief, improvised homily of some 300 words centered on the children…

“If they are hungry, mothers, feed them, without thinking twice. Because they are the most important people here,” he said, speaking in the same room where he was elected on March 13 as the first non-European Pope in 1,300 years… (more)

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