Rome Newsroom, Nov 6, 2022 / 10:25 am (CNA).
While speaking about the gifts of women during an in-flight press conference on Sunday, Pope Francis mentioned the recent appointment of a pro-abortion economist to the Pontifical Academy for Life.
“I have seen that in the Vatican; every time a woman comes in to do work in the Vatican things get better,” the pope said Nov. 6 on the flight to Rome from Bahrain.
He mentioned several positions now filled by women, also citing, by name, pro-abortion economist Mariana Mazzucato.
“And now, I put on the family council Mazzucato, who is a great economist from the United States, to give a little more humanity to this,” he said.
Mazzucato, known for her work promoting the public sector’s role in encouraging innovation, was among seven academics appointed by the pope on Oct. 15 to serve five-year terms with the Pontifical Academy for Life.
In his comments, Pope Francis said the appointment of a woman as vice governor of the Vatican City State and the inclusion of women on the Council for the Economy had been a benefit to the Vatican.
Moving from all men to having five women on the Council for the Economy was “a revolution, because women know how to find a right way, they know how to move forward,” he added.
Mazzucato’s appointment to the life academy drew criticism due to her outspoken advocacy for abortion rights, including the tweeting and re-tweeting of pro-abortion statements concerning the Supreme Court’s decision to return abortion law to the states.
The Pontifical Academy for Life issued a statement defending Mazzucato’s appointment on the grounds that members are chosen to contribute to “fruitful interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious dialogue.”
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Yes, to the genius of women…Helena, the mother of Constantine I and who discovered the True Cross; Golda Meir, the fourth prime minister of Israel; Margaret Thatcher, the long-serving prime minister of the British Empire…
and now this: Mazzucato, an economist on the Pontifical Academy for Life (Life!).
But what else can you do for a living member? Margaret Sanger is dead!
Don’t think I have the stamina to read this report.
The Holy Father often tells us quite directly where he stands on a given issue. On other occasions, we have to read what he does (e.g. his recent appointments to the PAL) and what he fails to do (e.g. condemn the legalization of abortion in Argentina a few years ago) to know where his head and heart are. He simply cannot come right out and tell us in plain language that he favors “a woman’s right to choose” as that might cause some difficulties with even our laid-back hierarchy, so he needs to speak by his actions, while maintaining some maintaining some plausible deniability. By now, I bet he has tired of trotting out the shopworn “abortion is like hiring a hitman” analogy” and wants to go beyond it. He is, and from the beginning has been, trying to send us a message. Are we listening?
Sending us a message?
He is a mime performing in front of a blind audience.
Something fundamental is missing if all PF can do is dance, nod, wink and smile.
He is the seventh pontiff i have had during my lifetime.
Of those who served in the Chair of Saint Peter, all of them preceding PF displayed absolutely no ambiguity in communicating with his global sheepfold.
What kinship does he have with the church?
Bergoglio should hang his head in shame for destroying the PAL. A future Pope should simply disband the institution as it has been corrupted beyond recognition.
The train wreck pontificate continues unabated.
This report contains a mass of propositions that were being thrown about already in the 20th Century in local situations. The idea here seems to be that they are truly universal and should be established for the 21st Century, proof of which being (would be) that they are announced by the Pope and sealed in a kind of rapture in joy, brotherhood and unity. Apparently what was blocking them until now is “not going deep into shame”; and this “not going deep” and/or “shame” warrants to be resolved for the 21st Century and to be “more than local”?
In my experience of these things in my local situation, in the late part of the 20th Century, the proponents in the setting were Freemasons and Rosicrucians, who were very concrete, very non-formalist and very nesting. Is this report the answer to these types of problems too?
The headline reads that the abortionista is outwardly upheld and praised; and yes, I have seen such things happen before as well during in the 20th Century. Cardinal Kasper had said something about the rising of “a southern wind” and this makes complete sense when applied to my particular Church and my experience of it in the 20th Century. Again in the 20th Century I witnessed the joining of the issue of “women” to coddling of abortion, as if it must be so and only so.
What was local and isolated in the 20th Century, it seems must become ubiquitous for the 21st?
There is a possibility that the report is not of an actual dialogue with the Pope but the result of written questions answered by a ghost-writer and presented as THE on-flight presser.
I wonder how the report would have read had it included the pro-life position and culture though. It seems to stretch out the Holy Father’s first words to make a picture of someone else’s spectrums.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2013/03/13/pope-francis-first-words-let-us-pray-for-the-whole-world-that-there-might-be-a-great-sense-of-brotherhood/
Taking up with something to give it an importance it does not have, a wrong kind of emphasis, a repacking of obligation – is not faith. Inevitably it carries with it a negation of hope -somewhere, somehow. And in both faith and hope, it is a blocking up of love.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2022-11/pope-flight-three-wars-century-pacifist-interview-bahrain.html
“And now, I put on the family council Mazzucato, who is a great economist from the United States, to give a little more humanity to this,”
Just the thought of Pope Francis, with his “family council”, down at the abortion mill crushing little children’s heads and cutting them to pieces alive, while the children are silently screaming, for the sake of his ‘humanitarianism’, makes me dreadfully ill.
What the hell!