excommunicated if they had ana borg an abortion. now a priest can say, no, you re not excommunicated, please come back to the church. we want to get everybody into this big tent, and this is a pope who continues to try to break the barriers. we ve seen it with other groups, and now certainly it s happening now more with women and this particular issue. you know, as a minister in the church as a priest, i have a lot of women who come to me in confession, confessing abortions. there is a lot of pain, a lot of guilt, a lot of feeling on the outside like they don t belong, that they ve done something unforgivable. this pope is saying, look, everything can be forgiven. nothing is beyond the purview of the mercy of god. and i m curious, how is this edict from pope francis different from what pope john paul ii did in the previous holy year in 2000? well, it differs because now in all diocese throughout the