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[Catholic Caucus] There’s Yet Another Jesuit on Francis’s Team. At the Academy for Life They Know Him WellTo the squadron of Jesuits, including a good three cardinals, that Pope Francis has set up in command of the Church, there must be added at least one name that Settimo Cielo culpably omitted in the previous post.It is a name not much in use. And one that nobody in recent days has brought into the swirl of criticisms that have struck the Pontifical Academy for Life, when instead the very one who bears that name was behind them.The controversy broke out following...

A fellow Pontifical Academy for Life member said Father Carlo Casalone and Mary-Jo Thiel took positions that 'are in conflict with the doctrine of the Church.'(LifeSiteNews) — In an article published February 17 in the Daily Compass, Jean-Marie Le Méné, president of the Lejeune Foundation and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, sharply criticized two fellow members of the academy for their public support of a referendum on the legalization of assisted suicide. The referendum on euthanasia had come under debate and was finally rejected in Italy’s constitutional court last week. “It is a serious matter,” Le Méné...

[Catholic Caucus] Is This the End? Francis’ Vatican Promotes SuicideJesuit Father Carlo Casalone, professor for immoral theology at the Gregorian University, urges the Church in LaCiviltaCattolica.it (January 15) to support an [immoral] assisted suicide legislation (“consensual homicide”) in Italy.Marie-José Thiel, professor for immoral theology in Strasbourg, France, explained in the oligarchs’ LeMonde.fr (January 31) that Casalone could not have taken this position “without the approval of the Holy See.”She also believes assisted suicide should be allowed “to avoid a worse evil” like assisted suicide on request. Thiel seems to be the only one not realising that this will precisely be...

The article was part of the periodical’s Jan. 15 edition, but was published online Jan. 13.ROME — Almost 60 organizations have criticized an article supporting the passing of an Italian bill to legalize assisted suicide, which was published last week in the Catholic, Jesuit-run journal La Civiltà Cattolica. A group of 57 associations, mostly based in Italy, have signed a statement voicing their opposition to the article, titled “The Parliamentarian Discussion on ‘Assisted Suicide.’”The article was part of the periodical’s Jan. 15 edition, but published online on Jan. 13. La Civiltà Cattolica, founded in 1850 and published twice a month,...