It was the second time in as many weeks that Francis has been asked about his views on abortion, which remains a hotly-contested issue for the Catholic Church

On his way back from his visit to Belgium, Pope Francis immediately made some controversial statements. “Doctors who perform abortions are assassins.” Pope Francis said this to some journalists on the flight back to Rome.

Pope Francis revisited thorny topics of his trip to Belgium during his in-flight press conference coming home, praising Belgium’s late King Baudouin as a “saint” for having abdicated for a day in 1990 rather than sign legislation legalizing abortion.