Posted on 04/23/2023 10:40:44 AM PDT by ebb tide
One figure in the high Vatican circles has been particularly controversial: Archbp. Vicenzo Paglia.
As Bishop of Terni he had installed in the apse of the cathedral a homoerotic fresco in which he is identifiable, wearing a zucchetto. As head of the Lateran he has dismantled the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family. HERE As President of the Pontifical Academy for Life he has involved various population control figures in events. HERE He suggested that the Church’s teaching on artificial contraception will change. HERE
He has now weighed in about a move in Italy to legalize assisted suicide. He FAVORS IT.
In 2019 he said he would hold the hand of a person committing suicide. HERE
I’m not making this up. In an interview with Il Riformista Paglia openly contradicted the Magisterium and the pronouncements of the Italian Bishops Conference, and said that the Church does not possess the truth on these issues.
From La Nuova Bussola with the text of Il Riformista:
“In this context, it cannot be excluded that in our society a legal mediation is feasible which allows assisted suicide in the conditions specified by the Constitutional Court’s Judgment 242/2019: the person must be ‘kept alive by life support treatments and affected by an irreversible pathology, a source of physical and psychological suffering that she considers intolerable, but fully capable of making free and informed decisions’. […] Personally I would not practice assisted suicide, but I understand that legal mediation can constitute the greatest common good concretely possible in the conditions in which we live”.
What is this?
To my mind it is a step along the lines of creeping incrementalism that began with Amoris laetitia and the infamous footnote that lead to the notion that Communion should be given to people in adulterous unions. Moreover, there is proposal that the death penalty cannot be applied in any situation, which clearly contradicts the Church’s teaching and God’s divine law in the Old Covenant (hence, it cannot intrinsically evil). There are all many of signals, hints, winks and silences on a raft of moral issues. Take, for example, giving awards to abortionists or favorable audience and positions to homosexualist activists. The “leaders” of the Church seem to think that it is too difficult for us to deal with our own moral questions – whether from divine or natural law. Therefore, let the state control us (as in the case of civil divorce and civil remarriage followed by reception of Communion).
In the Cathedral of Terni:
Bishop with the zucchetto… Paglia.
Ping
Good thing I know better than to listen to these corruptards
This is disgusting. As usual, the Vatican says we’re just misunderstanding it. But we’re not.
Paglia is one of the most evil people in the Vatican … and Bergoglio has promoted him higher and higher. I think he has a pretty good chance of being the next Pope.
He’s a fag, Jim
This message should not be coming from the church of all places.
The Church needs a good housecleaning. Too many heretics running around.
To Vincenzo Puglia: Why not off yourself?
You gotta love Babylon Bee.
The heretics are in control and really busy. The burning ghats of Hell may not ultimately prevail but they are wrecking the Church.
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