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A Response to Pontifical Academy for Life – Live streaming / Panels 1-6
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Date: December 5, 2022
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An International Meeting of Catholic Theologians, Natural Law Thinkers, Lawyers, and other Academics Engages the Pontifical Academy for Life’s Volume on “Theological Ethics of Life”
The International Catholic Jurists Forum presents:
A Response to the Pontifical Academy for Life’s Publication, Etica teologica della Vita. Scrittura, tradizione, sfide pratiche, December 8-10, 2022, Rome, Italy
(Rome, Italy)—December 5, 2022. On July 29, 2022, during his return flight from Canada to Rome, Pope Francis stated, “[T]he duty of theologians is research, theological reflection.” He also noted that theologians are called to discuss various “hypotheses” among themselves while recognizing that it’s up to the Magisterium to decide if certain proposals go too far.
An international group of Catholic theologians and other experts (clerics, lay men and women) are gathering in a private workshop, in Rome, from December 8 to 10, 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to engage, in a spirit of respect and fraternity, some of the issues, especially those connected with sexual morality, objective moral norms, and conscience, raised in the recent publication of the Pontifical Academy for Life entitled Etica teologica della Vita. Scrittura, tradizione, sfide pratiche, under the presidency of Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia.
The meeting, organized under the auspices of the International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF), is co-sponsored by Ave Maria School of Law, Ave Maria University, both based in Florida, and Ethics and Public Policy, Person & Identity Project, located in Washington, DC. Due to the interest expressed in the conference, the organizers have decided to open the gathering to the public via live stream on the website of The Daily Compass; the program, including concept note, bibliography, bios, and schedule can be found here. It is hoped that the conference will be of service to the Church and scholars, who are a facing the same doctrinal, moral, and social issues examined in Etica teologica.
The Defense of Humanae Vitae is Not a Partisan Issue
A response by Fulvio Di Blasi to a recently published article “Conservative defense of Humanae Vitae is not just about contraception.”
Rome Forum to Respond to Academy for Life’s “Theological Ethics of Life”
For the many people who had serious questions and doubts about Church teaching on life and sexual morality after the Pontifical Academy for Life published its “Theological Ethics of Life” (Etica teologica della Vita), following this forum online may provide some of the longed-for answers.
National Reporter
Letters to the editor responding to the Church’s teaching on birth control.
Conservative defense of Humanae Vitae is not just about contraception
So why are conservatives so vehemently defending Humanae Vitae? We believe it goes beyond the issue of contraception.
John Finnis to Pontifical Academy for Life: Church’s Infallible Teaching Against Contraception Is ‘Certainly True’
The renowned professor of natural law spoke last month at a Rome conference, convened in response to a recent Pontifical Academy for Life publication that challenged this teaching.
Prominent Vatican theologian: Pontifical Academy for Life is undermining Catholic sexual morality
Monsignor Livio Melina warned that the Pontifical Academy for Life is promoting ‘a real questioning of the entirety of sexual morality and the morality of life, which the Catholic Church has taught so far.’
Melina: “The possible good risks being the middle name of evil”
“When the moral precepts that protect the self-offering meaning of sexuality and human generation are contradicted, in reality we are not only going beyond the letter of a particular norm, but we are going against the spirit and meaning of the very law that God has written in our heart”. says Msgr. Livio Melina, in the keynote address (excerpts of which we offer in advance) which open the conference A Response to the Pontifical Academy for Life’s publication: Theological Ethics of Life. Follow the conference in live streaming on our website.
Humanae Vitae is ahead of the “new” morality of the Pontifical Academy for Life
A conference to reaffirm Christian anthropology and natural law in matters of life and family, in response to Pav’s volume “Theological Ethics of Life” and only seemingly innovative buzzwords. Jane Adolphe, organizer of the conference, which can also be followed on our Daily Compass, talks about it.
Conference to focus on controversial Pontifical Academy for Life book
Presented by the International Catholic Jurists Forum, the December 8-10 conference in Rome will feature an impressive array of over two dozen Catholic theologians, philosophers, canon lawyers, and other scholars, discussing contraception, homosexuality, gender ideology, and moral theology.
With American backing, thinkers gather in Rome to defend ‘Humanae Vitae’
ROME – With American Catholic backing, a group of jurists and theologians are gathering in Rome this week to push back against a seemingly more permissive stance from the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life on traditional moral norms, including the church’s ban on artificial birth control.
Is the Catholic Church Rethinking Contraception?
Some two dozen Catholic theologians, philosophers and other scholars gathered in Rome this month for a three-day conference dedicated to defending and explaining the implications of the Catholic Church’s prohibition of contraception, as set out in St. Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae.”
Among the speakers are well-known and respected names of the world of Theology, such as Monsignor Livio Melina, Father José Granados, Australian philosopher John Finnis and Jesuit Peter Ryan.
Catholic academic blasts Vatican’s Academy for Life as ’embarassing’
ROME – A Catholic academic participating in a Rome conference this week, which intentionally rivals one held by the Pontifical Academy for Life earlier this year, has voiced concern over the body’s recent activities, saying he believes they are “embarrassing” the church by failing to uphold core moral teachings.
Archbishop Paglia’s Ambiguous Comments on Assisted Suicide Raise Questions
Are certain Church leaders engaged in strategic ambiguity, including word games of revealing and concealing, altering, and maintaining with a view to changing Church teachings?
Here’s What I’d Like to Ask Archbishop Paglia of the Pontifical Academy for Life
Isn’t dialogue supposed to be in defense of the truths expressed in the natural law, revealed in Scripture and Tradition and taught by the magisterium?
Economist Mariana Mazzucato’s appointment to the Pontifical Academy for Life was scandalous enough due to her pro-abortion stance, but looking at her work reveals even more problems with her appointment.
Pope Francis Is Right: Pornography Consumption Opens a Gate to the Demonic
COMMENTARY: Father Hermann Backhaus’ promotion of pornography consumption as something benign is refuted by Scripture, Tradition, the magisterium, scholars and exorcists.
Il gender nella Chiesa: un problema di linguaggio e di crisi di fede
La “nuova” etica della PAV non distingue più tra bene e male
«Se la PAV apre alla contraccezione contraddice la grammatica del corpo»
La PAV porta la Chiesa a capitolare alla rivoluzione sessuale
Humanae Vitae piu avanti della nuova morale PAV
- VITA E BIOETICA
- 3-12-2022
Un convegno per riaffermare l’antropologia cristiana e il diritto naturale in materia di vita e famiglia, in risposta al volume Pav “Etica teologica della vita” e alle parole d’ordine solo apparentemente innovatrici. Ne parla Jane Adolphe, organizzatrice del convegno che si potrà seguire anche sul nostro Daily Compass.