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PopeWatch: Pontifical Academy for Death

 

Sandro Magister gives us the details as to why the Pontifical Academy for Life should be renamed:

At the Pontifical Academy for Life, the first big uproar was over the appointment of the Anglican moral theologian Nigel Biggar, a supporter of abortion until “18 weeks after conception.”

Asked to comment by Vatican Insider, Archbishop Paglia tried to justify the appointment by asserting that Biggar – apart from words he exchanged in 2011 with the staunchly pro-abortion philosopher Peter Singer – “has never written anything on the issue of abortion” and that on the end of life “he has a position absolutely in keeping with the Catholic one.”

But it didn’t take much to discover that neither statement corresponds to the truth, and that Biggar has expressed his liberal positions on abortion in a 2015 article for the “Journal of Medical Ethics,” and on euthanasia in his 2004 book “Aiming To Kill. The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia.”

Then it was noted that other new members of the academy are rather far from the Church’s positions:

– Katarina Le Blanc of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, who uses stem cells taken from human embryos fertilized in vitro;
– Japanese Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka, who in spite of his fame for producing pluripotent stem cells artificially has by no means rules out continued research on the use of embryonic stem cells, and explains why in an article in the scientific journal “Cell & Stem Cell.”
– the Israeli Jew Avraham Steinberg, who admits in some cases abortion and the destruction of embryos for scientific use;
– Maurizio Chiodi, a leading Italian moral theologian, who in his book “Ethics of life” makes allowances for artificial procreation, if it is supported by an “intention of fertility.”

 

Go here to read the rest.  When it comes to abortion the Pope has talked the talk, but with these appointments he obviously does not care to walk the walk.

 

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Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Thursday, June 29, AD 2017 5:34am

None of this is surprising. The pope and his henchmen act as though their ends justify pretty much any means. They simply aren’t honest about their ends. For instance, you wouldn’t treat a dog the way the Venezuelan people are treated by the Maduro government. Yet the pope continues to prop up that socialist hellhole with demands for dialogue rather than supporting his brother bishops in Venezuela. So, the fact that the Pontifical Academy of Life is no longer so is not a shock to anyone paying attention to this whitewashed tomb of a pope.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Thursday, June 29, AD 2017 5:56am

Judie Brown wrote quite an accurate article on Life Site News regarding these obscene appointments; https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/pope-francis-vatican-politicos-err

Evil will not win the war…but they sure are winning the day by infiltration. Pope who?

Clinton
Clinton
Thursday, June 29, AD 2017 7:35pm

Anyone who still believes that Pope Francis is somehow just a lovable,
humble, well-meaning man prone to innocent off-the-cuff remarks that
only seem to reveal a troubling heterodoxy— well, that person hasn’t
been paying much attention.

Consider the ongoing destruction of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate,
the chicanery behind the calculated manipulation of the Synod on the
Family, Francis’ refusal to answer the Dubia, and now his systematic gutting
of the Pontifical Academy for Life. None of those things could have been
done without this Pope’s knowing, active collusion. And none of them can
have a motivation other than the desire to subvert orthodoxy.

One would have to look back many centuries to find a more malignant Pope.
Sure, there have been Popes who have done some questionable things in the
name of political expediency. Francis differs from those Popes in that it’s
not political enemies he strives against, his target is orthodoxy itself.

God help us all.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Friday, June 30, AD 2017 3:12am

More important than Life issues are Papal political friendships with advocates of the culture of death. To be well thought of among Progressive intellectuals trumps being a supports of Catholic truth.

Robert Harris
Robert Harris
Sunday, July 2, AD 2017 6:40am

Not surprising when you consider who he has appointed to the Academy of Science and who helped him write Laudato Si. Hans Schellnhuber is a believer in Gaia but not a believer in God. He also enlisted the help of Jeffrey Sachs, Naomi Klein, Naomi Oreskes ( she wrote the introduction to Laudato Si) and Peter Wadhams. All of these people are radical anti-capitalists and global warmists who are even rejected by those you would think would be their peers. They are extreme.

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