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[Catholic Caucus] George Weigel: Francis Betrays the Legacy of John Paul II
Gloria TV ^ | May 25, 2024 | Gloria TV

Posted on 05/27/2024 8:52:16 AM PDT by ebb tide

[Catholic Caucus] George Weigel: Francis Betrays the Legacy of John Paul II

The former Pontifical Academy for Life, now the Pontifical Academy for Death, has betrayed its founder, John Paul II, and its first president, Professor Jérôme Lejeune, said George Weigel, John Paul II's biographer and neo-conservative warmonger, at a conference on bioethics held in Rome on 17-18 May.

As an example, he cited the book with the euphemistic title "La Gioia della Vita" ("The Joy of Life") published by the Academy in February. It contains a prologue by the homosexual activist Vincenzo Paglia, who is also a Vatican archbishop and president of the academy.

The authors of the articles in the book attempt to whitewash contraception, medically assisted procreation and euthanasia suicide.

Weigel describes the book's authors as "dissenting from the authoritative teaching" of the Church, and formulates the truism that the book espouses an "anti-biblical and anti-metaphysical anthropology" that would have been " completely foreign, indeed abhorrent, to both Jérôme Lejeune and John Paul II".

Naively, Weigel expresses the hope that the deconstruction of the Pontifical Academy for Death, "a painful process that can be observed over the past decade, is halted and then reversed in the years ahead".


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: apostatepope; apostates; deathacadamey; frankenchurch

1 posted on 05/27/2024 8:52:16 AM PDT by ebb tide
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The authors of the articles in the book attempt to whitewash contraception, medically assisted procreation and euthanasia suicide.

2 posted on 05/27/2024 8:56:40 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Personally I am disgusted by all the anti-Pope Francis articles posted to this forum. And the comments generally are basement level and worthless. Show some respect!


3 posted on 05/27/2024 9:05:47 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: ebb tide

Betrays implies that the person signed onto the agenda in the first place. Which is probably true in this case. In the 90’s, his fellow Jesuits found him to be unacceptably conservative.


4 posted on 05/27/2024 9:09:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: rod5591

The Truth hurts, doesn’t it?


5 posted on 05/27/2024 9:09:43 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: rod5591

What do you mean by basement level? Also, do you object to any criticism of the Pope, or you just don’t like the kind of insults directed at him.


6 posted on 05/27/2024 9:10:13 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ebb tide

All of these progressive ideals of present members of the Curia were prophesied by The Third Secret of Fatima and was never revealed due to the formal Apostasy of Vat II. Seems this is the reason the final Secret will never be revealed because it was prophesied in 1960 and Vat II began in 1962 that Vat II will destroy The Church. 18,000 priests have left, Churches and Schools are closing rapidly and Church attendance is at all time low. The Third Secret prophesied demise of the Church due to Vat II. Hopefully the next Pontiff will be a Traditionalist and reverse Vat II and save Christ’s Church.


7 posted on 05/27/2024 9:12:27 AM PDT by chopperk (are)
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To: rod5591

Why?
Do you think he is representing Catholicism in any way, shape or form??
The man is a disgrace.


8 posted on 05/27/2024 9:20:19 AM PDT by ANKE69
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To: rod5591

Respect is earned. “Pope” poofter has earned contempt. The pretender is a wrecking ball to our faith.


9 posted on 05/27/2024 9:21:02 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ebb tide

Pope Marx was installed to destroy the church.


10 posted on 05/27/2024 9:27:40 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: rod5591

Be disgusted all you want.
What is ACTUALLY disgusting is the way this current abhorrent successor selection to St. Peter, is deconstructing Catholicism !
To say apostate is kind.
Be disgusted, or open your eyes, which is it?


11 posted on 05/27/2024 10:28:15 AM PDT by bantam
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To: gibsonguy

you’ve earned my contempt.


12 posted on 05/27/2024 11:23:29 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: nickcarraway

By basment level, I mean that the Pope is not a politician, yet he is somehow subject to the insults of cretins and lowlifes who don’t know the difference between a politicain and the leader of the world’s largest religion. If the shoe fits...


13 posted on 05/27/2024 11:34:00 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: rod5591
By basment level, I mean that the Pope is not a politician,...

Bergoglio is definitely a politician. As far as being a pope, he relegated the title, Vicar of Christ, to the history books.

14 posted on 05/27/2024 11:41:06 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: rod5591

I will spend less than a second caring about your contempt


15 posted on 05/27/2024 12:47:17 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: rod5591

For decades, George Weigel was the ultimate Catholic Church “company man,” acting as an apologist everything the Vatican said and did. If even Weigel is alarmed by the actions of Pope Francis, then you know that this pontificate is a dumpster fire. Otherwise, Weigel would be the last one to call them out.


16 posted on 05/27/2024 1:09:54 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: gibsonguy

Touché!


17 posted on 05/27/2024 1:16:54 PM PDT by ebb tide
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