<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis condemned gender ideology and abortion rights as part of a “nefarious path” which ends, not in &#8220;progress,&#8221; but “tragic defeat” during a speech to civil and religious leaders on the first day of his trip to Hungary.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hungary’s first female president, Katalin Novák, in attendance, Francis praised the Eastern European country&#8217;s efforts to restore </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">culture, tradition, and family values. He also lauded Novák, whose controversial <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2022/03/10/hungary-just-elected-its-first-female-president-and-shes-pro-life-and-pro-family/">pro-family policies</a> as the former </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> were considered essential to reversing a demographic decline in the country.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“How wonderful … to build a person- and people-centered Europe, where there are effective policies for birth and family. We have countries in Europe with the average age of 46-48 years, carefully pursued in this country, where different nations are a family in which the growth and uniqueness of each is cherished.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pope Francis has often lamented the decline in birth rates in Europe, and during his speech, he condemned &#8220;ideological colonization&#8221; of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pope-francis-blasts-gender-ideology-as-one-of-the-most-dangerous-ideological-colonizations">gender theory</a> and other leftist values. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am thinking, therefore, of a Europe that is not hostage to (political) parties, becoming prey to self-referential populism, but neither does it turn into a fluid, if not gaseous reality, into a kind of abstract supranationalism, oblivious to the lives of people,” the pope said. “This is the nefarious path of &#8216;ideological colonization,&#8217; which eliminates differences, as in the case of so-called gender culture, or puts reductive concepts of freedom before the reality of life, for example, boasting as an achievement a senseless &#8216;right to abortion,&#8217; which is always a tragic defeat.” </span></p>
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<p>During his speech, the pope thanked the Hungarian government for its humanitarian work around the globe, including aid to persecuted Christians in Syria and Lebanon. He cited Hungary&#8217;s history of suffering during war and prayed for peace in Ukraine.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pope Francis will continue his three-day journey in Hungary by meeting with more of the country&#8217;s leaders and with young people. His visit will culminate</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Holy Mass celebrated in Budapest’s Kossuth Lajos&#8217; Square on Sunday.</span></p>

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