The Vatican Makes Shocking Admission About Reforming The Church

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[00:00:14]Use promo code tradition at charitymobile.com for a special offer. Much of the changes we see in the church that come from the man-c centeredness that we saw in Magnifica Humanitas of Pope Leo I 14th and predates his efforts by many decades is this adaptation of doctrine to the new times.

[00:00:41]That's what we see. It's part of focusing the church's efforts on humanity in the name of humanity and dialoguing with man and and traveling, accompanying man. All of those things we see calling into question a great deal of Catholic truth, God's honest truth, biblical truth, sacred truth, usually about morality.

[00:01:05]And for whatever reason, the bishops are very very obsessed with this uh stuff that James Martin promotes.

[00:01:13]The entire reason I cover it so often is because they talk about it so often.

[00:01:17]They publicly speak about this. They publish documents about it. They cause grave scandal with their permissiveness around it.

[00:01:25]We have another story like this. Now, this one involves Archbishop Halia, one of the one of the well, the top dogs at the Pontipical Academy for Life, the John Paul II Institute, which was designed to defend human dignity, authentic human dignity, understand in the authentic way in light of the gospel. Under Francis, that organization was gutted and replaced all the decent people in it, both lay and clerics and bishops and the rest with men and women who take a much more secular view of questions related to life. Life sight news for this incredible admission through a story. The headline here is Archbishop Palia Francis wanted to quote adapt doctrine to the new times on that stuff James Martin's really interested in and moral theology. Archbishop Vincenzo Palio Pope Francis ordered sweeping reforms of the John Paul II Institute and Pontipical Academy for Life to break with static natural law morality.

[00:02:31]One of the aspects of modernism that goes un that is un really unadressed until Leo put voice to it is this idea that doctrine and morality can adjust with the times.

[00:02:43]Leo gave voice to this idea himself when early on in his papacy he said attitudes must change first regarding various doctrines and moral teachings. He admitted this. He told this to the press and then all of his actions in light of that do in the aftermath seem to make it clear that that's what he's working towards and he admitted he's continuing the work of Francis. This was the work of Francis. So there's no reason to think that this won't continue under Leo.

[00:03:12]After all, these men are still in their positions more than a year later.

[00:03:18]from the article.

[00:03:20]Archbishop Venchenzo Polus of Pope Francis deliberately sought to recreate the pontipical academy for life and the John Paul II institute in order to move Catholic theology beyond what he described as a moralistic framework based on natural law. On May 21st, in an interview published by the Italian outlet Setana News, Paulia gave an extensive account of the reforms he carried out under Pope Francis at the Pontipical Academy for Life and the Pontipical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, arguing that both institutions had to be transformed in order to align with the theological and pastoral direction promoted during Francis's pontificate, especially after the cinnids on the family and the publication of Amoratitzia in 2016.

[00:04:04]One of the nerve centers of the whole operation, Paulia said, was the rethinking of the concept of nature, which stood at the foundation of a static and immutable vision of natural law.

[00:04:17]That's an interesting observation.

[00:04:20]When we talk about the laws of science, they tend to be static, unchanging.

[00:04:24]That's why they're laws. So to call something a law is generally to call it static. And obviously in the laws of man, your governing laws, those can be changed through legislative acts or or through the decrees of Caesar depending on the political system you live under.

[00:04:40]But when we talk about the laws of science, they are the they are supposed to be the laws of nature. Science being just, you know, constant process of discovery if it's taken seriously. But you know, once something is declared a law, which almost never happens, it's generally immutable. It doesn't change.

[00:04:58]sort of like the natural law which is the law of God.

[00:05:04]Here he's complaining that was static and immutable.

[00:05:08]And he continues saying with it the question of the essentialist and ahistorical paradigm on which all sexual and family moral theology developed until now had rested. He's saying the church's teaching is ahistorical.

[00:05:20]An ahistorical paradigm. It doesn't align with the history of humanity. It doesn't reflect reality.

[00:05:28]church catholic morality does not reflect morality or doesn't reflect reality. That is what he is saying.

[00:05:37]Paulia added that critics of the reforms understood their implications correctly here. The opponents understood well a very profound reform was at stake. He admitted so those of us who sounded crazy to normal people by pointing out that these people were were using the Vatican to upend human morality. He says the opponents understood well a very profound reform was at stake. We were correct.

[00:06:02]Paulie retraces in his interview the entire revolutionary process carried forward by Francis in the moral and bioethical field since his election.

[00:06:10]Immediately after the 2013 election, Pope Francis convened the two assemblies of the senate on the family. Meanwhile, the anniversary of human vite in 2018 was also approaching and Pope Francis felt the need to adapt doctrine to the new times. He candidly admits particularly regarding James Martin's stuff and the divorced and remarried Catholics.

[00:06:30]He Francis asked me to prepare a text that would highlight human vite's prophetic character while also showing some necessary updates. I prepared a text drafted with the collaboration of a group of theologians. He appro he appreciated it very much. You know, it's amazing they didn't touch contraception there.

[00:06:47]Food for thought.

[00:06:49]Paulie also said this work later flowed into broader theological projects connected to moral theology and family ethics. After the publication of Lamor latitzia in 2018, Pope Francis summoned Pali and told him, "I would like to entrust you with the reorganization of the John Paul II institute and the Pontipical Academy for Life." He said it precisely, meaning that both these institutions of the Holy Sea had to be rethought within this broadening of perspective. There it is again, broadening of perspective.

[00:07:18]being more inclusive here in our new man- centered age. Still not adequately matured theologically and culturally cooked within today's Catholic sensibility, the Archbishop explained, describing the pre-reformed culture of the two Vatican institutions, Paulia argued that both were excessively centered on abstract moral reasoning, detached from lived experience.

[00:07:39]There's that phrase you see all the time. Now, again, lived experience. This is moral relativism, but it's also much worse than moral relativism. comes from Ashendi Dominici Gregorus Pope St. P the 10th landmark encyclical condemning the heresy of the modernists and at the core of it was something called vital imminence which was lived experience the idea that the the truth of religion comes from an interior feeling and we should we learn what the truth of religion is by sharing it with other people that's lived experience pious attempt didn't wasn't terribly good at writing in a way accessible for every everybody out there but I do suggest you read or listen to my recordings of Pashendi if you are so interested.

[00:08:22]Polyus said they operated through the application of a doctrinal algorithm of morality and discipline and reduced human experience to rigid categories of moral judgment. That's what he said Catholic teaching is. He also criticized Pope Benedict the 16th's defense of non-negotiable values describing it as a part of strong moralistic accent based on abstract principles. Sacrifice of the most young de mo. You think that that that's going to change given how they're describing it here? that it's just abstract principles. How is this abstract?

[00:08:54]According to Palia, however, the Pontipical Academy and the John Paul II Institute have become places of pronounced doctrinal resistance to the papal teaching which claimed to be more coherent with Christian truth than the perspectives outlined by Morsatitzia.

[00:09:08]Regarding the botific academy for life, Paulia said he sought to redefine the concept of life itself.

[00:09:14]Enter now the seamless garment heresy of Cardinal Bernardin which equated the gravest moral evils of our time right here the sacrifice of the most young and the elderly to mala. He equated those to unemployment, war, um polluted rivers, all this stuff.

[00:09:36]put him on the same moral plane.

[00:09:40]Rather than treating life primarily as a matter connected to the two different kinds of sacrifices to Moolok, he argued that the academy had to adopt a wider even cosmic hello tharan anthropological and social understanding in which life became a totalizing category. Poly said this broader perspective required a plural diversified and non-essentialist approach capable of engaging modern culture and social developments.

[00:10:07]Real turning point was actually codified by Pope Francis himself on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pontipical Academy for Life. In a letter he sent me entitled Humanic Communitus.

[00:10:17]In it, Francis outlined the fundamental lines of its development. I'm not sure how many have actually read it, but it is a remarkably clear manifesto of the new vision the pope was encouraging.

[00:10:28]As part of that shift, the academy expanded its membership beyond Catholic moral theologians to include experts in robotics, engineering, economics, artificial intelligence, as well as non-atholics and non-believers. And this is why I brought this up in light of hum magnificus magnificent humanity.

[00:10:46]Paulia recited the academyy's collaboration with Microsoft and IBM on the 2020 Rome call for AI ethics, an example of the institution's new direction.

[00:10:58]You want to keep reading that nonsense, check the show notes at the Anthony Stein Substack. You find a link to it there or just go to life site and dig up the article. Either way, France has put a bunch of modernist, blatant modernist heretics in charge of the Pont John Paul II upon academy and the Pontipical Academy for life. And guess what happened? They're still there under Leo cuz he did no house cleaning.

[00:11:26]None when he came in.

[00:11:30]They're still there.

[00:11:33]And you can link that now to his new encyclical on AI, which isn't really so much about AI, but putting man at the center of everything and apologizing for the church's history by misrepresenting church history. It's it's a grotesque document, and you can see how the fingerprints of this academy in it.

[00:11:53]Let's pray for everybody in that story today.

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