A hostile takeover of the Pontifical Academy for Life

[Michie]

Last week in this space, I expressed my dismay at the news that Pope Francis had appointed a pro-abortion scholar to the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL)— and Archbishop Vincenzio Paglia, the president of the PAL, had compounded the problem by adopting the rhetoric of the abortion lobby and insisting that his new colleague was not “pro-abortion” but merely “pro-choice.”


Then we learned that another newly appointed member of the PAL had indulged in pro-abortion sloganeering, saying that the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, “undermines basic requirements of tolerance toward the pluralism of moral perspectives within society.”

So there were two avowed proponents of legal abortion among the 14 new members of the PAL. But there was more bad news to come.

This week brings the discovery that two more new PAL members have been heavily involved in promoting contraception. While neither has made explicit public statements in favor of abortion (as far as I know), one works for a group that furnishes “supplies for safe abortion and post-abortion care,” while the other came highly recommended by Planned Parenthood. So I feel quite safe in saying that neither would fit comfortably into the pro-life camp.

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A hostile takeover of the Pontifical Academy for Life

 

[chevyontheriver]

Last week in this space, I expressed my dismay at the news that Pope Francis had appointed a pro-abortion scholar to the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL)— and Archbishop Vincenzio Paglia, the president of the PAL, had compounded the problem by adopting the rhetoric of the abortion lobby and insisting that his new colleague was not “pro-abortion” but merely “pro-choice.”


Then we learned that another newly appointed member of the PAL had indulged in pro-abortion sloganeering, saying that the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, “undermines basic requirements of tolerance toward the pluralism of moral perspectives within society.”

So there were two avowed proponents of legal abortion among the 14 new members of the PAL. But there was more bad news to come.

This week brings the discovery that two more new PAL members have been heavily involved in promoting contraception. While neither has made explicit public statements in favor of abortion (as far as I know), one works for a group that furnishes “supplies for safe abortion and post-abortion care,” while the other came highly recommended by Planned Parenthood. So I feel quite safe in saying that neither would fit comfortably into the pro-life camp.

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A hostile takeover of the Pontifical Academy for Life

But wait. Nobody gets to be a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life without the appointment by cardinal Paglia and the approval of pope Francis. It's not like anybody went around THEIR backs to subvert the PAL. This was a frontal attack. Friendly fire if anything. Of hostile fire from behind our own lines. Yup. That's what it is.

 

[Wolseley]

“....undermines basic requirements of tolerance toward the pluralism of moral perspectives within society.”

Gee, God has been doing that for thousands of years. In both the Old and New Testaments, anybody who wanted to be a member of the club didn't have the option of being too "tolerant", too "pluralistic", or too fluid with their "moral perspectives".

Could it be that the problem is with man wanting to make God into his image, instead of the other way around?