Top Moral Theologian Claims Humanae Vitae is Reformable, Not Infallible, by Jules Gomes  

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant, December 14, 2022

The Usurers by Quentin Matsys, Galleria Doria Pamphilj

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Pontifical Academy for Life is seeking to legitimize contraception and pave the way for a potential encyclical from Pope Francis that will reverse the anti-contraceptive teaching of Humanae Vitae.

On Tuesday, the PAL Twitter account posted an interview with the academy’s moral theologian, Fr. Maurizio Chiodi, stating that “Humanae Vitae, like any encyclical, including Veritatis Splendor, is an authoritative document, but with no claim to infallibility.”

Chiodi, who is also a professor of bioethics at the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, stresses that both Humanae Vitae and its predecessor Casti Connubii are “in the realm of doctrina reformabilis (reformable doctrine).”  …

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