[Grem] Pro-life leaders accuse Pope Francis of failing to uphold Church teaching

[Emoke Greschik]

Pro-life leaders from 13 countries accuse Pope Francis of failing to uphold
Church teaching
by *Staff Reporter <http://catholicherald.co.uk/author/staff-reporter/>*
posted Tuesday, 12 Dec 2017
http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/12/12/pro-life-
leaders-from-13-countries-accuse-pope-francis-of-failing-to-uphold-church-
teaching/
Pope Francis speaks during a weekly general audience at the Paul VI
audience hall (Getty Images)

*One signatory accused the Pope and other members of the hierarchy of*
*spreading
errors*

Leaders of pro-life organisations from across the world have signed a
letter accusing Church leaders, including Pope Francis, of undermining
their movement through *ambiguous statements and actions contrary to* *Catholic
teaching.*

The letter says <https://www.fidelitypledge.com/> that *over the past 50
years the pro-life movement has “relied in a particular way on the
immutable teaching of the Catholic Church, which affirms the moral law with
the greatest clarity.*”

However, the signatories say that i*n recent years that teaching has
increasingly been replaced by “ambiguity, and even by doctrines directly
contrary to the teaching of Christ and the precepts of the natural law”.*

The letter then lists the concerns of several documents and letters to Pope
Francis over the past couple of years, including the Filial Appeal
<http://filialappeal.org/> in September 2015, the ‘Dubia’, the Filial
Correction
<http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/09/24/sixty-scholars-and-priests-issue-correction-of-pope-francis/>
earlier this year, and Fr Thomas Weinandy
<http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/11/01/us-theologian-tells-pope-many-are-losing-confidence-in-you/>’s
letter last month.

On top of these, the signatories accuse the Pope of *statements and actions
which “contradict the Church’s teaching on the intrinsic evil of
contraceptive acts”, “contradict* *the Church’s teaching on the nature of
marriage* *and the intrinsic evil of sexual acts outside* *the union of
marriage”.*

*They also criticise **his **approval*
<http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2016/documents/papa-francesco_20160901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html>*
of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which they say “effectively call
for member states to achieve universal access to abortion, contraception
and sex education by 2030”.*

*Finally, they condemn the “approach adopted towards sex education,
particularly in chapter 7 of Amoris Laetitia and in The Meeting Point
programme produced by the Pontifical Council for the Family”.*

Signatories from the UK are John Smeaton of the Society for the Protection
of Unborn Children (SPUC), Greg Clovis of Family Life International UK, and
Dr Thomas Ward of the National Association of Catholic Families.

Irish signatories are Patrick Buckley of European Life Network, John Lacken
of Legio Sanctae Familiae and the Lumen Fidei Institute, and Anthony Murphy
of Catholic Voice.

John Smeaton, chief executive of SPUC, issued a statement accusing Pope
Francis of disseminating errors, and urged priests not to follow them.

*“Over the last couple of years Pope Francis and Vatican authorities have
capitulated to the ‘culture of death’ by supporting the pro-abortion United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals and by promoting the agenda of the
international sex education lobby through Amoris Laetitia and the
Pontifical Council for the Family’s pornographic sex education programme.
This has a direct effect on real children and real families,” he said.*

“For this reason the pro-life movement cannot bury its head in the sand and
ignore *what’s happening at the highest levels of the church today*,”
Smeaton added.

“*We must ceaselessly demand that our priests and bishops teach the
fullness of the Church’s doctrine and do not** collaborate, even for a
moment, in the dissemination of errors that are tragically being spread by
His Holiness Pope Francis and by many other senior members of the
hierarchy.* If we fail to take this stand we will be failing in our duty to
the weak and vulnerable children that we have pledged to protect.

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