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[Barf Alert] No, Woke Pontifical Academy for Life, there isn't a "Black Jesus"... Carrara marble is beautiful: the smoothness and intense light of this particular stone made it a favorite of masters in the Italian renaissance.One of the greatest pieces is, of course, Michelangelo Buonarroti's "Pietà", in the Vatican Basilica, carefully restored after an attack made on it in the pontificate of Paul VI. Since the marble is white, the sculpture is all white: not just skin...but draperies, clothes, everything -- obviously.Apparently, the currently woke-led Pontifical Academy for Life thinks attacking this image again, now virtually, is fair game for...

New JP II Life Academy pres criticizes Vatican archbishop for attacking political defense of life in US  ‘For the Pope’s representative to caution against today’s political defense of life in America can only serve to weaken the resolve of less committed Catholics to vote for the pro-life party’ VATICAN CITY, Rome, September 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The archbishop who heads the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life suggested that the political defense of life in America, currently being championed by President Trump, can be a cause of “great harm.” Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia made his remarks in an interview with Crux and...

Paglia’s Revolution: How to Destroy Catholic Morality In an interview with the American website Crux, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, denies the existence of non-negotiable moral principles and accuses those who use the right to life as a voting criterion of political exploitation. The implicit reference is to the American elections, but Paglia’s affirmations are consistent with an approach, by now consolidated, that distorts the fundamental foundations of Catholic moral theology. In his most recent interview with Crux (here) Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, corrupts the sense of Catholic moral theology...

Vatican archbishop retweets image of naked adults surrounded by naked children The image from a film about marriage shows a naked man and woman lying on the ground surrounded by naked children ITALY, July 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A prominent Vatican archbishop, infamous for commissioning a homoerotic mural to be painted in his Cathedral, retweeted today an image of a naked man and woman lying on the ground surrounded by naked children. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, chancellor of the new John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in Rome and the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, retweeted a post...

[Catholic Caucus] Judie Brown reacts to Paglia's support for assisted suicide Judie Brown reacts to paglia's support for assisted suicide By Judie BrownDecember 12, 2019 We have learned that "Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said Tuesday that he would be willing to hold the hand of someone dying from assisted suicide, and that he does not see that as lending implicit support for the practice." It is unclear why Paglia would say such a thing given the fact that the act of assisted suicide, a form of euthanasia, is an assault on the dignity of...

Vatican official: I’d ‘hold hand’ of person dying from assisted suicide ROME - A leading Vatican official says he would “hold the hand” of someone who was dying from assisted suicide, even though he considers it wrong, because “no one is abandoned” by the Church.Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia was speaking on Tuesday during the presentation of an upcoming symposium on end-of-life issues co-sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, which he heads.“I believe that from our perspective, no one is abandoned, even if we are against assisted suicide, because we don’t want to do death’s dirty job,” the archbishop...

(snip) As the firebrand cultural critic Camille Paglia puts it in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal's Tunku Varadarajan, Americans take our unprecedented freedom of choice and wealth of consumer goods for granted. They are desperately in need of a richer, deeper context for the very era they are denouncing. "Everything is so easy now," Ms. Paglia continues. "The stores are so plentifully supplied. You just go in and buy fruits and vegetables from all over the world." Undergrads, who've studied neither economics nor history, "have a sense that this is the way life has always been. Because...

[Catholic Caucus] John Paul II Institute. The Hit, the Boss, the Button A name change, rewritten statutes, professors replaced, a revised order of studies. With Pope Francis an authentic earthquake has struck the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family - this being the original designation - founded by pope Karol Wojtyla in the early years of his pontificate and initially entrusted to the leadership of Carlo Caffarra, a theologian of great expertise on the subject and a future cardinal.In the previous post, Settimo Cielo highlighted the justified revolt of numerous students and of many tenured...

[Catholic Caucus] Timeline of events reveals plot to destroy legacy of JPII Institute ROME, August 20, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — In one of his final interviews before his death in 2017, Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, the founding president of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family, recalled a letter he received from Fatima visionary, Sister Lucia dos Santos, when he was facing trials in establishing the Institute. In that letter, Sister Lucia wrote: “Father, a time will come when the decisive battle between the kingdom of Christ and Satan will be over marriage and the family. And those who will...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican ‘struggling to put out fire’ of public scandal over JPII Institute purge ROME, August 15, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The “firefighters for the new direction” being taken at the John Paul II Institute in Rome are “struggling” to put out a blaze of public scandal, as controversy sparked by a recent purge of professors threatens to reach the door of the Pope’s residence at Santa Marta. In a new letter published by respected Italian journalist, Aldo Maria Valli, an informed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the “violent upheaval in the teaching staff” and “drastic change in the curriculum and orientation of academic research” has sent “shockwaves” through the Church,...

[Catholic Caucus] Upheaval at John Paul II Family Institute Abp. Vincenzo Paglia oversees sweeping changes at academic institute devoted to marriage and family ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Concerns are being raised about major changes unfolding at a pro-family, pro-marriage academic institute overseen by the Vatican. The Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Science is in the middle of a major shake-up, according to a piece released Wednesday in Italian Catholic publication La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana. Two priests who were chairs of moral theology at the institute, Fr. José Noriega and Msgr. Livio Melina, have now been dismissed from their roles there, as...

You’ve been a sharp political prognosticator over the years. So can I start by asking for a prediction. What will happen in 2020 in America? Will Hillary Clinton run again? If the economy continues strong, Trump will be reelected. The Democrats (my party) have been in chaos since the 2016 election and have no coherent message except Trump hatred. Screechy Elizabeth Warren has never had a snowball’s chance in hell to appeal beyond upper-middle-class professionals of her glossy stripe. To win in the nation’s broad midsection, the Democratic nominee will need to project steadiness, substance, and warmth. I’ve been looking...

Cultural commentator Camille Paglia said in a recently published video that second-wave feminism – in its attempt to destroy men – is also destroying women and our culture. A video of Paglia’s discussion at the Battle of Ideas festival in London in October 2016 has been made available on YouTube and was recently linked to on the Drudge Report. The video is released with the launch of Paglia’s new book, Provocations: Collected Essays. The feminist icon – who prefers the original brand of feminism that won women the right to vote and raised up heroines such as Katharine Hepburn, Amelia...

Alfie Evans’ father has said he is knocking “on the Church’s door” asking for help to save his son from being euthanized, and is pleading that his “voice be brought to the Holy Father” so that Alfie can be transferred to “the Pope’s hospital” in Rome. In a letter sent on Sunday to the archbishop of Liverpool, Thomas Evans also confirmed that he and Alfie are both baptized Catholics despite the archdiocese saying that they weren’t. So far the archdiocese has made no comment on the case.   Leaked internal memo According to an internal memo from the archdiocese leaked...

As the parents of two year old Alfie Evans battle to save their son’s life in the face of hospital and state rulings to turn off his life support, a hospital in France has ordered the removal of food and water from a 42 year old patient who has been severely disabled for 10 years. The Sebastopol Hospital in Reims ruled on Monday that ordinary means of life support be removed from patient Vincent Lambert on April 19. Vincent suffered severe head injuries in an automobile accident in 2008 that left him a quadriplegic, but other doctors and his parents...

Vatican Archbishop, Move On From The Ban On Contraception Pro-Gay Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has suggested to “re-read” [meaning: abrogate] the encyclical Humanae Vitae (1968) in the light of issues like genetic modification. According to The Tablet (April 11), Paglia wants to move the focus away from the question whether married couples may use artificial contraception, “We have to widen the horizon.” Paglia admitted that Paul VI's focus was on contraception but he believes that today this question has become "secondary.” The birthrate of all [decadent] Western countries has reached a level that...

NewsCatholic Church, FamilyFri Apr 6, 2018 - 11:04 am EST Vatican archbishop: It’s ‘very dangerous’ to speak of the family as a ‘little church’ Matthew Cullinan Hoffman Follow Matthew catholic , pontifical academy for life , vincenzo paglia April 6, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – he current president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life is warning that it is “dangerous” to speak of the family as a “little church” and the “domestic church,” a term that is used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and in the documents of Vatican II. “The Church, which is a familial Church, for...

MEXICO, March 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Vatican archbishop Vincenzo Paglia expressed his frustration at the widespread controversy caused by Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia during a recent stop on a Vatican campaign to secure acceptance of the document among the clergy.  “Enough of debating all of this!” shouted Paglia before an audience gathered in the seminary of the Mexican diocese of Queretaro. “Enough!” he repeated. People are living in an “existential tragedy” in second marriages, and “it’s time to put an end to this discussion” and to “begin to receive people” in such situations into the Church, Paglia said....

Visit to Benin’s John Paul II Theological InstituteNovember 2, 2017Anne KurianChurch & Religion Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia (C) ZENIT - HSM The Church must not be a “court” but a companion, asserted Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, at Cotonou in Benin, in words reported by the Italian Catholic agency SIR, on November 2, 2017.The Archbishop is visiting the country on the occasion of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of activity of the Section of the John Paul II Theological Institute for French-speaking Africa, affiliated to the Roman Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the...

Outspoken feminist Camille Paglia says the current generation of hyper-sensitive, safety-seeking college students was gradually created by the downward spiral of public education that has left them ignorant of history and geography and focused, instead, on viewing America as an evil nation. (snip) Paglia said: What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history of any kind. No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where...