By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, The Catholic Thing - Under its current president, Abp Vincenzo Paglia, the Pontifical Academy for Life is no longer the intellectual heart of the pro-life movement in Rome. It often confuses what it should clarify... The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences isn’t what it was intended to be either. Its president for a very happy decade, 2004-2014, was Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon. Its less happy chancellor was Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, an Argentinian philosopher of no particular distinction.