Posted on 06/24/2022 6:11:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Pontifical Academy for Life's statement has been met with mixed responses, with some suggesting the Academy was displeased at the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – The Pontifical Academy for Life has issued a “bizarre” statement following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, calling for a “a non-ideological debate” to determine the place “the protection of life has in a civil society.”
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision this morning in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, upholding Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, overturning Roe v. Wade, and delivering the pro-life cause its most transformative victory since Roe unleashed nationwide abortion-on-demand in 1973.
As pro-life advocates across the world begin to respond to the groundbreaking ruling, the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL) issued its own statement, which has drawn mixed responses.
The PAL echoed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) statement, quoting from the U.S. bishops to say:
It is a time for healing wounds and repairing social divisions; it is a time for reasoned reflection and civil dialogue, and for coming together to build a society and economy that supports marriages and families, and where every woman has the support and resources she needs to bring her child into this world in love.
The PAL avoided quoting the line from the USCCB statement which slated Roe as an “unjust law that has permitted some to decide whether others can live or die.”
Instead, the PAL took a distinctly noncommittal stance, and wrote that the Supreme Court’s ruling “shows how the issue of abortion continues to arouse heated debate.”
“The fact that a large country with a long democratic tradition has changed its position on this issue also challenges the whole world,” continued the statement.
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Women don’t abort due to money, they abort because the various social ideals (don’t be a bad mom, don’t give up your kids, don’t get pregnant outside of marriage, do have a career, do look like a thin boy, do be a virgin, do have a carefree youth), good in and of themselves, lead to insurmountable depression and anxiety with no other pressure valve when pregnancy occurs. Society offers abortion as a “safe, legal, responsible” alternative and she goes along.
We need to teach people how to fail. Christianity, practiced correctly, has the redemptive and positive attitude toward failure that allows pregnant women to reject abortion. I’m not sure if we can come up with a society that fosters life while excluding God, but until society changes, no amount of money is going to buy abortion-minded women off.
Okay, maybe $50K, but then again maybe not.
Not possible to have a non-ideological debate. This church is in a wonderful period of idiocy.
Frankenchurch Ping
“Not possible to have a non-ideological debate.”
The Catholic church does not realize this is not an ideological debate. This is a theological debate. For leftist, Communism and paganism is their religion.
I thing that this Pope has turned the Vatican into a pro-abort, pro-queer enclave due to its embracing of pro-abort, pro-queer appointments. Many of these seem to be recommended by McCarrik.
calling for a “a non-ideological debate” to determine the place “the protection of life has in a civil society.”
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“Civil society” is a leftist code phrase for one world government.
If suffering were possible in Heaven, would St. John Paul II roll over in his grave at recent changes made to the Pontifical Academy For Life founded by him in 1994? On October 18, 2016, Pope Francis did away with the lifetime appointments of the 172 members. Was this because the appointments during the papacies of John Paul and Benedict would be resistant to the watering down of the importance and preeminence of the abortion issue in favor of raising prudential issues to a virtually absolute status?
Anyone want to know what was at the root of the Pontifical Academy For Life? Go back and read or skim John Paul’s brilliant early 90s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel Of Life”). Near the end he calls on the faithful to rediscover the power of fasting joined to prayer to bring down the walls of lies and deceit propping up the monster of abortion. We saw some of the fruit of much prayer and sacrifice yesterday.
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