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Pope: Pontifical Academy for Life Members no Longer Required to Sign Pro-Life Declaration
LifeSite News ^ | 11/10/16 | Jan Bentz

Posted on 11/10/2016 7:19:38 PM PST by marshmallow

ROME, Italy, November 10, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life will no longer be required to sign a declaration that they uphold the Church’s pro-life teachings.

In new statutes for the Vatican body promulgated on November 4, Pope Francis has also expanded its mandate to include a focus on the environment.

Pope Francis approved the statutes last month, the Vatican website announced.

Previous statutes were issued in 2004 and enumerate the “specific tasks” (§2) of the Academy in three points: to “study questions and issues connected with the promotion and defense of human life from an interdisciplinary perspective,” to “educate in a culture of life,” and to “inform the Church and the public […] about the most relevant results of its study and research activities.”

In the new statutes, §3 has received an addition: whereas the paragraph previously stated that research of a scientific character must “be directed towards the promotion and defense of human life,” the new paragraph reads:

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In new statutes for the Vatican body promulgated on November 4, Pope Francis has also expanded its mandate to include a focus on the environment.

Save the trees!!

1 posted on 11/10/2016 7:19:38 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Yep, as soon as you embrace environmentalism people become part of the problem and you need fewer of them.

What is maddening it is always someone else they wish would die or never be born and not themselves.


2 posted on 11/10/2016 7:24:06 PM PST by tiki
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Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life will no longer be required to sign a declaration that they uphold the Church’s pro-life teachings.

Oookkaaaaayyyyyy......

3 posted on 11/10/2016 7:26:02 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: marshmallow

Looks like we need to drain another swamp.


4 posted on 11/10/2016 7:30:08 PM PST by HChampagne (Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
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To: marshmallow

The Pontifical Academy for the Seamless Garment.

That whole pro-life thing is so right-wing.


5 posted on 11/10/2016 7:35:18 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: marshmallow

I fear I am watching the Episcopalianation of the Church. Will it progress on to Unitarianism?


6 posted on 11/10/2016 7:38:15 PM PST by arthurus (Hillary is getting shaky)
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Yeah because its just nuts that people on a advocate for life board/group should actually sign something affirming they are pro life....

/s


7 posted on 11/10/2016 7:45:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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when are Catholics going to wake up and realize that Francis I is no more a Christian than bin Laden?

Francis is a socialist twit masquerading as a man of God. IMO.


8 posted on 11/10/2016 8:03:28 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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How sad. He does not represent any of my views. What has my church come to. Yes - drain the swamp.


9 posted on 11/10/2016 8:49:47 PM PST by Digger
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