The Vatican's semi-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, hosted on its front page an article highly critical of Archbishop Cardoso's action.
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Bishop Jean-Michel di Falco of Gap, France criticized, like Fisichella, what he saw as the un-Christlike nature of Archbishop Cardoso's statement, saying that bishops should act as pastors rather than executioners.
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On 9 March 2009, Health Minister Temporão interrupted the opening ceremony of a national medical convention on women's health in Brasília in order to compliment Dr Olímpio Moraes, one of the doctors who carried out the abortion and who was in attendance.
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Health Minister José Gomes Temporão directed his criticism against the Catholic Church's position, describing it as "extreme, radical and inadequate".
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Eggebroten was strongly critical of a 2009 case in Brazil where archbishop José Cardoso Sobrinho pronounced an excommunication for an abortion after a case of incest.