New Academy for Life Member Uses Amoris to Say Some Circumstances ‘Require’ Contraception!

Last Friday, I posted an article originally from the Catholic Herald, with Fr John Zuhlsdorf's commentary from his blog, it was called, Is the #AmorisLaetitia Agenda Just the Warm Up For the Full Assault on #HumanaeVitae?

Well, the assault seems to have begun even before the publication of that article! Here is an article from yesterday, but  it details a talk given on 14 December by a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, in which full blown, egregious heresy against Infallible Doctrine is presented as the acceptable fruit of Francis' heretical Encyclical AmorisLaetitia.

From LifeSite News:

ROME, January 8, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Responsible parenthood can obligate a married couple to use artificial birth control, a recently appointed member of the Pontifical Academy for Life has argued, basing his theory on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia.

Italian moral theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi said at a December 14 public lecture at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome that there are “circumstances — I refer to Amoris Laetitia, Chapter 8 — that precisely for the sake of responsibility, require contraception.”

Chapter 8 of the Pope’s 2016 document on the family has drawn controversy because of its differing interpretations on the issue of admitting some divorced and civilly “remarried” couples to Holy Communion.

When “natural methods are impossible or unfeasible, other forms of responsibility need to be found,” argued Fr. Chiodi in his lecture entitled: Re-reading Humanae Vitae (1968) in light of Amoris Laetitia (2016).

In such circumstances, he said, “an artificial method for the regulation of births could be recognized as an act of responsibility that is carried out, not in order to radically reject the gift of a child, but because in those situations responsibility callsthe couple and the family to other forms of welcome and hospitality.”

The Italian professor’s comments come as the Church this year marks the 50thanniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, which reaffirmed the Church’s ban on contraception. In his encyclical, Paul VI called artificial contraception “intrinsically wrong,” approved natural family planning, and upheld the Church’s teaching on conjugal love and responsible parenthood.

Concerns about the conference series were first made public in the National Catholic Register by Edward Pentin, and by George Weigel in an article published in First Things. But Fr. Chiodi’s public lecture, which included students and religious sisters, may be the most explicit indication to date that an organized effort to challenge Humanae Vitae’s prohibition against artificial contraception is underway.

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