'Under Pope Francis ... the church at its highest levels is now debating the morality of contraception, more than half a century after another pope was supposed to have handed down a definitive statement on the matter,' a writer says in a Wall Street Journal essay.
The Pontifical Academy for Life's Arcbhishop Paglia reportedly used nearly half a million euros of charitable funds to renovate his personal apartment at the Vatican.
'And now I have put Marianna Mazzucato in the Pontifical Academy for Life,' the Pope stated. “She is a great economist from the United States. I put her there to give a little more humanity to it.'
Pope Francis' latest scandalous appointments to the pro-life academy are 'just the opposite of what John Paul II wanted,' said Dr. José María Simón Castellví.
'All Academics are chosen from among scientists and experts of absolute importance, as Pope Francis reiterated in the Letter ‘Humana Communitas’ of 2019 to the Pontifical Academy for Life. The nominations of the Ordinary Academics are made by the Pope.'
'Archbishop Paglia must now in person publish a clear and unequivocal statement committing the Pontifical Academy for Life to the unconditional defence of the inviolability of innocent human life from conception until its natural end.'
The Pontifical Academy for Life's official Twitter account 'liked' a pro-LGBT post on the social media platform, adding a new entry to the growing list of anti-Catholic statements made in recent months.
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.'