Posted on 08/31/2022 6:46:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Pontifical Academy for Life issued a statement Monday clarifying the academy's opposition to abortion after its president, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, called Italy's abortion law a 'pillar of our social life.'
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – The scandal-plagued Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) has clarified its president Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia’s recent remarks calling Italy’s permissive abortion law “a pillar” of Italian society.
Speaking on Italian state television channel Rai Tre on Friday, Paglia said that Italy’s Law 194, which permits abortion for any reason within the first 90 days of pregnancy and for specified reasons thereafter, has now become “a pillar of our social life,” sparking scandal and outrage among Catholic commentators who understood the remarks as a kind of praise for the 1978 legislation.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò castigated the prelate over his comments, suggesting that Paglia’s words, which he said were “scandalous,” “contradict the Gospel and the teaching of the Roman Pontiffs” on the sanctity of life and the false “right to abortion.”
Jacob Coghe of the Italian pro-life organization Pro Vita & Famiglia said that Paglia’s discussion of Law 194 failed to “deny the intrinsic iniquity” of the pro-abortion legislation. “We do not understand how a law that kills harmless and innocent human lives can be a ‘pillar’ of society,” he said.
In response, the PAV released a press statement Monday morning stressing the prelate’s intention to simply express that the law – which paved the way for the murder of over 6 million babies in the country – has become “entrenched in the Italian legal system” rather than to convey “a positive view” of the law.
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(Italy’s permissive abortion law “a pillar” of Italian society)
Killing unborn babies is a pillar of life. Makes perfect sense!
C’mon man!
(“We do not understand how a law that kills harmless and innocent human lives can be a ‘pillar’ of society,” he said.)
No normal human being could understand it. You’re in good company.
The apostate pope.
The Academy has so drifted from its founding in 1994 when it would defend teachings of the Church the world hates like Her teaching on abortion, euthanasia, and IVF. Now it increasingly seems kinda worldly, weird, and Gnostic.
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