During the 25th International Congress of Catholic Pharmacists held on Monday, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the participants by telling them they shouldn’t supply abortion pills and products used for euthanasia.

Instead, the Catholic pharmacists should make efforts to educate the patients to use the medication in a correct way and inform them on the "ethical implications" of using the particular drugs as well, a Vatican statement informed.

"We cannot anaesthetize consciences as regards, for example, the effect of certain molecules that have the goal of preventing the implantation of the embryo or shortening a person's life," Benedict XVI said regarding the abortion pill and products used in euthanasia.

The abortion pill, which Pope Benedict disapproves of, contains the drug RU-486 or Mifepristone, a synthetic steroid compound used as an abortifacient in the first two months of pregnancy, and in smaller doses as an emergency contraceptive. The RU-486 is available in most of the European Union countries especially after being approved by the United States Federal Drug Administration in 2000.

The Mifepristone it’s not authorized in Italy, where it has met a stiff opposition by the Catholic politicians.

Pope Benedict also spoke about the medical or pharmaceutical practices that oppose the church’s teachings and called for "conscientious objection" against them. His Holiness said that the conscientious objection is a right that must be recognized for the people exercising the medical profession “so as to enable them not to collaborate directly or indirectly in supplying products that have clearly immoral purposes such as, for example, abortion or euthanasia."

Pope Benedict’s message was well received amid the pharmacists. One of the members, Baldwin pharmacist Lutful Chowdhury, a Muslim and the owner of Aim Pharmacy, referred to the Pope’s message as "moral issues" and said that respecting them would be a "betterment of mankind."