"The academy for life is losing "its full and pure commitment to truth"

John Allen schrijft deze week over de micro-oorlog bij de pauselijke academie voor het leven, zie link:

"The controversy erupted in early May when several academy members, led by Austrian Catholic philosopher Josef Seifert, once again suggested its leadership should go, this time in protest over two recent conferences organized under the academy's aegis -- one in February on infertility, another scheduled for April on stem cells, which was later cancelled. Seifert and other critics objected that both events featured speakers who don't share Catholic teaching, thus creating the risk of scandal and confusion.

Seifert penned a six-page open letter to Spanish Bishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, an Opus Dei member and the current president of the academy, to report "enormous concern" that the academy is losing "its full and pure commitment to truth".

Especially by the standards of the Vatican, where the cult of the bella figura usually means keeping internal tensions under wraps, this dispute has turned fairly nasty. On background, sources within the academy have groused to reporters that the place has been "paralyzed" by a small but vocal minority; Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi of the Pontifical Council for Culture, openly and on the record, has all but called the critics "fundamentalists."

Sources say it's unlikely anyone's head will roll this time around. Carrasco de Paula has already apologized privately and sent a soothing letter to members, and he'll be 75 in October anyway".

Commentaar:
Van tenminste 1 bestuurslid weten we dat hij niet zoveel geeft om "full and pure commitment to truth"  en daarin wordt gesteund door zijn soortgenootjes en zijn superieuren die in voorkomende gevallen zijn leugens afdekken.

In ieder geval komt er in oktober in Rome een stoeltje vrij dat mij geknipt lijkt voor de aartsbisschop om binnenkerkelijk tot op de hoogste niveau's te kunnen doorliegen.