Archbishop Paglia: "The Vatican Rethought Natural Law"
Monsignor Paglia wrote a text with a group of theologians, and Francis “appreciated it greatly”.
The issues under discussion included homosexuality, marriage, “irregular” (sinful) situations, and Communion for the divorced and remarried.
Throughout the interview, Paglia portrays Catholic moral theology - including the concept of “non-negotiable values” - as “moralistic,” based on “abstract principles,” “desk theology,” and detached from "real human experience".
"Immutable vision of natural law" overturned
Furthermore, Archbishop Paglia stated that the 2016 “reform” of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family involved “rethinking the concept of ‘nature’.” According to Paglia, the previous approach had rested on a “static and immutable vision of natural law.”
According to Paglia's claim, the Catholic sexual moral theology had been built on an “essentialist and ahistorical paradigm.”
He even acknowledged that opponents “understood correctly: a very profound reform was at stake.”
Archbishop Paglia attacked the Catholic professors who had shaped the institute as a small ideological group that had effectively taken it over. Some, he complained, defended positions “more restrictive than Pius XII.”
The institute was essentially dismantled and rebuilt from scratch - with a new name, new faculty, abolished chairs, and entirely new disciplines.
The Pontifical Academy for Life, which until then had consisted almost exclusively of Catholic moral theologians, was opened to members from other Christian traditions, other religions, and even “professionals and thinkers who are religiously non-believing.”
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