George Weigel: Francis Betrays the Legacy of John Paul II
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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".
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