{"id":704,"date":"2022-10-22T08:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2022-10-22T08:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:43:17","slug":"pontifical-academy-for-life-defends-pro-abortion-wef-appointee-says-pope-francis-nominated-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/22\/pontifical-academy-for-life-defends-pro-abortion-wef-appointee-says-pope-francis-nominated-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontifical Academy for Life Defends Pro-Abortion WEF Appointee, says Pope Francis Nominated Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-info\">\n<div class=\"entry-excerpt\">&#8216;All Academics are chosen from among scientists and experts of absolute importance, as Pope Francis reiterated in the Letter \u2018Humana Communitas\u2019 of 2019 to the Pontifical Academy for Life. The nominations of the Ordinary Academics are made by the Pope.&#8217;<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/pontifical-academy-for-life-defends-pro-abortion-wef-appointee-says-pope-francis-nominated-her\/?utm_source=daily-usa-2022-10-21&amp;utm_medium=email\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 Pope Francis himself chose a pro-abortion economist for the Pontifical Academy for Life.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In response to the outcry over the recent, highly controversial,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/pope-appoints-pro-abortion-world-economic-forum-speaker-to-pontifical-academy-for-life\/\">appointment of\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0World Economic Forum-linked Mariana Mazzucato as an \u201cOrdinary Academic,\u201d the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL) sent a statement to chosen journalists covering the Vatican to defend it.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/252589\/vatican-press-office-pro-abortion-pontifical-academy-for-life-member-contributes-to-dialogue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Catholic News Agency<\/a>\u00a0(CNA), the PAL statement confirmed that the pontiff himself had nominated the new members of the PAL:<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All Academics are chosen from among scientists and experts of absolute importance, as Pope Francis reiterated in the Letter \u2018Humana Communitas\u2019 of 2019 to the Pontifical Academy for Life. The nominations of the Ordinary Academics are made by the Pope.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:708}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement also declared that people with \u201cskills in various disciplines and from different contexts,\u201d would contribute to a \u201cfruitful interdisciplinary, intercultural and interreligious dialogue.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why among the academics there are also non-Catholic people: two rabbis, a Shinto academician, Muslims, an Anglican theologian. The Pontifical Academy for Life is a study and research body. So the debate and dialogue take place between people of different backgrounds,\u201d the statement said.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the statement also communicated that the nominees, including Mazzucato, went through a selection process and no red flags were raised:<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 [B]efore being nominated, the names proposed or reported go through a procedure that foresees the consultation of the Apostolic Nuncio and the Episcopal Conference of the countries where the Academics live and work. It also happened in this case and there were no problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The press release also noted that the documents published by the PAL \u201care sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith [CDF] before being published.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mazzucato is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MazzucatoM\/status\/700612571636826112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-described<\/a>\u00a0\u201catheist\u201d and professor of economics at University College London (UCL). She is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2022\/01\/mariana-mazzucato-on-rethinking-the-state\/?utm_source=linkedin&amp;utm_medium=social_video&amp;utm_term=1_1&amp;utm_content=26562_governments_risks_Mariana_Mazzucato&amp;utm_campaign=social_video_2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speaker at the WEF<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the globalist group behind the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/06\/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">socialist<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/the-great-reset-is-a-radical-attack-on-freedom-and-christian-values\/\">anti-Christian<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/great-reset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Reset<\/a>\u00a0agenda \u2013 and also enthusiastically pro-abortion, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/catechism.cc\/articles\/abortion-excommunication.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">direct contradiction<\/a>\u00a0to the unchangeable teaching of the Catholic Church.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In June, following the United States Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of the landmark 1973 pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision, Mazzucato tweeted \u201cSo good!\u201d in response to a pro-abortion commentator making anti-Christian statements disparaging the Bible while condemning the court\u2019s pro-life ruling.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So good! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cw2ujmXRbT\">https:\/\/t.co\/cw2ujmXRbT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MazzucatoM\/status\/1540820869747965953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/vatican\/vatican-news\/academy-life-president-defends-appointment-economist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<i>National Catholic Reporter<\/i>, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia told media that Mazzucato\u2019s tweets may have been \u201cpro-choice\u201d but not \u201cpro-abortion.\u201d Paglia, the president of PAL, allegedly said regarding Mazzucato that \u201cour vetting showed that in her scientific work she has never taken a position against life. You cannot judge the deepest convictions of a person by four tweets.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Paglia also reportedly claimed that while the Catholic Church is opposed to abortion, it recognizes that in some situations people of goodwill can support laws and public policy designed to reduce recourse to abortion while allowing the procedure in some cases.\u00a0However, it is very clear in PAL founder St. John Paul II\u2019s\u00a0<em>Evangelium Vitae<\/em>\u00a0that this is not an approval of the legalised killing.<\/p>\n<p>It reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 A particular problem of conscience can arise in cases where a legislative vote would be decisive for the passage of a more restrictive law, aimed at limiting the number of authorized abortions, in place of a more permissive law already passed or ready to be voted on. Such cases are not infrequent. It is a fact that while in some parts of the world there continue to be campaigns to introduce laws favouring abortion, often supported by powerful international organizations, in other nations-particularly those which have already experienced the bitter fruits of such permissive legislation-there are growing signs of a rethinking in this matter. In a case like the one just mentioned, when it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality. This does not in fact represent an illicit cooperation with an unjust law, but rather a legitimate and proper attempt to limit its evil aspects. (Evangelium Vitae, 73)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Support for abortion is clearly contrary to valuing life and the dignity of the human person as the Church Magisterium interprets it. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that \u201dhuman life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person \u2013 among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.\u201d (CCC 2270)<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>LifeSiteNews contacted the Pontifical Academy for Life to confirm if Paglia\u2019s statements about Mazzucato\u2019s pro-abortion stance are accurate but has not yet received a response.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-block ad-content ad-pos-bot ad-inserted\" data-track-content=\"1\" data-content-name=\"ad-content\" data-content-piece=\"ad-bot\"><ins id=\"revive-0-4\" data-revive-zoneid=\"3\" data-revive-id=\"b77c5f0e8df9d15247fef929e12002cd\" data-revive-seq=\"4\" data-revive-loaded=\"1\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"beacon_da4d5b3ef3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=0&amp;campaignid=0&amp;zoneid=3&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Fpontifical-academy-for-life-defends-pro-abortion-wef-appointee-says-pope-francis-nominated-her%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-usa-2022-10-21%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=da4d5b3ef3\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>Mazzucato\u2019s appointment contradicts the PAL\u2019s own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academyforlife.va\/content\/dam\/pav\/documents\/academy_statute.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statutes<\/a>. Even though the statutes say that members can be of any religion, new Academicians need to \u201ccommit themselves to promoting and defending the principles regarding the value of life and the dignity of the human person, interpreted in a way consonant with the Church\u2019s Magisterium.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;All Academics are chosen from among scientists and experts of absolute importance, as Pope Francis reiterated in the Letter \u2018Humana Communitas\u2019 of 2019 to the Pontifical Academy for Life. 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