Pontifical Academy for Life Retweets Article on Changing Church’s Contraception Ban, by Andreas Wailzer

‘Under Pope Francis … the church at its highest levels is now debating the morality of contraception, more than half a century after another pope was supposed to have handed down a definitive statement on the matter,’ a writer says in a Wall Street Journal essay.

By Andreas Wailzer, LifeSiteNews, Jan 5, 2023

Msgr. Renzo Pegoraro, rector of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Youtube

(LifeSiteNews) — The Pontifical Academy for Life’s (PAV) Twitter account retweeted a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article about changing Catholic teaching on contraception.

The article, titled “Is the Catholic Church Rethinking Contraception?,” lays out the debate inside the Church about changing the teaching on contraception. It was retweeted by the PAV on December 30, 2022, and represents the latest scandal of heterodoxy by the increasingly dissident Vatican organization.

Francis X. Rocca, the author of the WSJ essay, gives an overview of the current discussion on the Church’s contraception ban.

“Under Pope Francis, who has encouraged debate on a number of questions previously considered closed — including divorce and homosexuality — the church at its highest levels is now debating the morality of contraception, more than half a century after another pope was supposed to have handed down a definitive statement on the matter,” Rocca writes. …