Pro-abortion papal appointee rejects criticisms
February 13, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: A controversial new member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL) has responded sharply to questions about her support for legal abortion and her atheism.
Mariana Mazzucato, an Italian economist who was appointed by Pope Francis, expressed impatience with a journalist’s question about her membership in the papal academy. “I find it very sad that we go backward instead of forward,” she said.
Mazzucato pointed out, “I’ve never written an op-ed, a blog, a journal article, or a book that has had even the word ‘abortion’ or ‘religion’ in it.” Her focus, she said, is on “redesigning the economy so that it’s good for humanity.”
Mazzucato cited injustices that she sees in the current world economy: “one child under five dies every 80 seconds from diseases caused by polluted water; and climate change is on the course to cause 80 million excess deaths by the end of this century due to rising temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions.”
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Posted by: feedback -
Feb. 13, 2024 11:19 PM ET USA
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness... [Isaiah 5:20]
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Feb. 13, 2024 10:02 PM ET USA
"I find it very sad that we go backward instead of forward." It seems what we have here is another name caller. Atheism has no basis for distinguishing good from evil. What is evil today might be considered good tomorrow (e.g., attempts to bless unnatural vice and other forms of sinning), and what is good today might be evil tomorrow (e.g., insistence on holding Christ's moral teachings, as exemplified throughout the entire New Testament, as the standard that does not change with time or place).
