Four recent appointees to the Pontifical Academy for Life have broken with the Church on the immorality of abortion and/or artificial contraception. Critics stress that given the weight of moral teaching of the pope and of the authentic magisterium, what is deemed “intrinsically immoral” (always sinful: abortion, contraception and same-sex acts) “cannot be objectively justified under any circumstances or for any good intention.”
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Why are so many Vatican appointees at odds with Church teaching?
Edward Pentin, NCRegister
Monday, October 31, 2022