Abortion Rights Opponents Praise Departing Pope for Anti-Abortion Stance

The Hill: Tributes to pope highlight abortion stance, by Elise Viebeck:

The outgoing pope won praise Monday for his outspoken teachings against abortion, an issue that has divided U.S. Catholics for decades. 

The deeply conservative Pope Benedict XVI "unified Catholics," said Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York in a statement Monday. . . .