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September 26, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The President of the Pontifical Academy for Life has defended the Pope’s recent replacement of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family with a school focused on Amoris Laetitia, and argues it is in fact a revamping of pro-life efforts.
In the same interview, he said being pro-life encompasses opposing gun violence, support of immigration, and environmentalism, and claimed Pope St. John Paul II laid the way for Church approval of Communion for adulterers.
In addition to heading the Vatican pro-life academy, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is the Grand Chancellor of the new Amoris Laetitia-focused school, the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.
Paglia told Crux’s John Allen that the Pope’s transformation of the Institute is “about growth.”
The Institute “couldn’t just stay like it was,” Paglia said, because of changes “both in the awareness of the Church and also the social, cultural and anthropological conditions of the world.”
The John Paul II Institute has long been seen as a stronghold of Catholic orthodoxy. Before the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, two professors of the former Institute authored a book arguing against
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