Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The Facts about the New Pro-Life Head of the Pontifical Academy for Life Appointed by Pope Leo

1. Appointed to that academy by Pope Benedict in 2011.

2. Per Life Site News, never explicitly said he supported contraception to avoid pregnancy for medical reasons.  Therefore, giving him the benefit of the doubt. he supports NFP for that purpose which is legitimate per Pius XII.

3. Does not support assisted-suicide, while merely stating the law tends to have more safeguards around it that euthanasia, which is true.

4. Pope Leo made the decision within the first weeks of his pontificate to reverse the decision of his predecessor, to remove the academy's head who was not orthodox.

Conclusion, papal pundits bitter about Pope Leo are proven yet again wrong.  These convoluted stories are too easy to disprove.  Just a few clicks and review of primary and secondary sources dispels the nonsense.  As usual.