5 Actions of the Month to Help End Speciesism

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Urge Pope Leo XIV to Stand Against Bullfights!

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Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV: Cut the Church’s Ties to the Bullfighting Industry

Most Holy Father:

We urge you to denounce cruel and un-Christian bullfighting, and to end the Catholic Church’s support for it. In doing so, you would honour the legacy of Pope Francis, who, given more time, would surely have taken this compassionate step. God’s creations shouldn’t be subjected to prolonged suffering and stabbed to death in the name of Catholic saints or during holy Christian celebrations, and members of the Catholic clergy shouldn’t support the torture of animals.

As Pope Francis declared in the 2015 Laudato si’, “Every act of cruelty towards any creature is ‘contrary to human dignity’.” Yet, the Catholic Church’s ties to the bullfighting industry make a mockery of Christ’s teachings of kindness and compassion.

Bullfighting is a ritualised execution, which involves repeatedly goading and stabbing a bull until he is weakened and defenceless. A matador will then plunge a sword into the animal’s heart or lungs. It can take many attempts to kill a bull this way, and if the matador fails, a knife will be used to sever the spinal cord. The bull’s ears or tail may be cut off and kept as a trophy.

Holy Father, before more animals are tortured in this way, please communicate to members of the clergy and the more than 1.4 billion Catholics around the world that bullfighting is contrary to the values of the Roman Catholic faith and that any association with this grotesquely cruel spectacle in God’s name must stop immediately.

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