Vatican attacks US `depravity'

VATICAN CITY-A new Vatican document on the family has attacked abortion as a primordial evil that had reached "new depths of …

VATICAN CITY-A new Vatican document on the family has attacked abortion as a primordial evil that had reached "new depths of depravity" in the US.

The document by the Pontifical Council for the Family also said euthanasia was second only to abortion in contempt for life and condemned efforts to legalise it.

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